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[[Image:TarragonaandCommendenciaWharves3.jpg|thumb|right|Commendencia Street Wharf at left. [[Tarragona Street Wharf]] visible at right.]]
The '''Commendencia Street Wharf''' was a major shipping depot located at the southern terminus of [[Commendencia Street]], south of [[Main Street]] and just west of the [[Tarragona Street Wharf]].
The length of the wharf, from the north end of the slip to the extreme south end of the structure, was 2,065 feet.<ref>[http://fulltext10.fcla.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=fhp;idno=WF00000040;sid=2e92289173713b1be1f1540dd7bbacf4;rgn=full%20text;cc=fhp;node=WF00000040%3A1;a=39;view=toc;subview=jpgtoc The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. ''Pensacola Harbor and Its Advantages''. 1901.]</ref>
The Commendencia wharf was the site of a massive warehouse owned by the [[L&N Railroad]]. The largest of its kind in the South, it was 50 feet wide by 1202 feet long and two stories high, with a capacity of 500 freight carloads. Three sets of railroad tracks ran into the first floor, and another two with inclined trestles ran to the second floor.<ref>J. S. Glass, editor. ''The Southern Manufacturer'', Volume V, Number 3. New Orleans: June 1901.</ref>
