"San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf gets its name and neighborhood characteristics from the city's early days of the mid to later 1800s when Italian immigrant fishermen came to the city by the bay to take advantage of the influx of population due to the gold rush.
Fisherman's Wharf roughly encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square /Van Ness Avenue east to Pier 35/ Kearny Street. "
