The clatter of lumber and the shouts of longshoremen at Laguna Point began in 1883, when schooners and steamships moored there to take on loads of Mendocino's valuable redwood lumber. In 1883, the Laguna Point loading operation served two sawmills, one at Laguna Creek, today's Mill Creek, and the other at Ten Mile River. At Laguna Point, ships were loaded by sliding cargo down an apron chute to the deck, but in 1885 winter storms washed away the chute and wharf, and the apron chute was replaced by a wire chute that lowered bundles of lumber by cable. In 1887, the Little Valley Lumber Company built a 2.5-mile-long, gravity-driven tramway from its mill near the town of Cleone to Laguna Point, where full rail cars coasted downhill to the shipping yard and horses hauled them back to the mill. Laguna Creek Mill and the tramway shut down in 1904. Although railroad ties and tanbark continued to travel out of Laguna Point until 1920, most lumber was shipped out of Fort Bragg. MacKerricher's coastal trail began as a logging railroad in 1916, and in 1949 a road was built to transport logs by truck. The Lake Cleone railroad trestle burned down in the early 1960s, and the same haul road can still be walked today. Early in the logging era, specialized doghole schooners hauled lumber from the Mendocino Coast to markets in San Francisco, and the dogholes were shipping points along the coast too small for a dog to turn around in, but with just enough room to load lumber onto a small wooden schooner.