These pilings are the remains of the Florida East Coast Railway freight dock, once a center of local commerce for many years. Fish and pineapples were shipped from Stuart by the boxcar load. In 1918, when the first auto-bridge spanned the St. Lucie River, the freight dock also served as a ferry landing. On July 10th, 1933, during the construction of the first Roosevelt Bridge, the freight depot went up in flames and two months later, on September 4, a hurricane destroyed the freight dock.