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California Alpine Club on Mt. Tamalpais Celebrates Centennial

By Dorsey McTaggart

The California Alpine Club is celebrating its centennial with an impressive series of activities to...

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House under construction on Limantour Beach, c.1962. Though construction on this house was completed, it was torn down after the creation of the Pt. Reyes National Seashore.

Thank Goodness It Never Happened: A New Exhibit at the Jack Mason Museum

By Meg Linden

The Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History has a new exhibit called “Thank Goodness It Never Happened”. The exhibit examines the "West Marin Master Plan," a preliminary version of which...

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Lithograph of Owl's Wood from the 1887 "Marin Journal"

Frank Morrison Pixley's Owl's Wood: An Oasis in Corte Madera

By Laurie Thompson

In 1848. Frank Morrison Pixley came overland to California by wagon train to prospect for gold. Later he settled in San Francisco where he established a law practice.  He...

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L to R: Paul Maxwell, Patricia Arrigoni & Lloyd Smalley, 2010

The Founding of the Marine Mammal Center at Fort Cronkhite

By Laurie Thompson

We invite you to join Patricia Arrigoni & Paul Maxwell, two of the founders of the Marine Mammal Center, for a film & illustrated talk on the founding & development of...

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Peter H. Behr

Peter Behr: Letter to a 6th-Grade Student

By Laurie Thompson

We are grateful to Francis Brooks who recently donated a wonderful hand-written letter from Peter Behr in which Behr provides a brief autobiography and explains the workings of County government for a local history...

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West Point Inn 2013

Historic Entertainment at the West Point Inn

One hundred years ago the first playgoers hiked to Mt. Tamalpais's Mountain Play. Many came by train. Nearly all came by way of the West Point Inn.

Little has changed since those steam train-days....

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Celebrating 100 Years of the Mountain Play, 1913-2013
Special Events in Celebration of the Civic Center's Anniversary

History

Clockwise from back left: Isadore, Arcangelo,Giacondo and Romeo Cerini, undated.

Swiss-Italian Immigrants Found Marin "Just Like Home"

When Giocondo Cerini arrived in Tomales in 1910, he found so many family members, friends, and acquaintances that he said “it was just like home,” according to a 1994 interview in the ...

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Philo Jacoby, King of the Sharpshooters
56 Years Ago: "Red Charge Stirs Wright to a Boil"

Genealogy

Mill Valley grocery store belonging to Louis Gerhardt & a partner. Louis is in the wagon. The building is located on Throckmorton Avenue. The store was later owned by the Canepa family.

Eleanor Gerhardt of Mill Valley

I was recently contacted by a South Dakota lady to help prove that Eleanor Gerhardt and Eleanor Tompkins were one and the same. They were. The journey to prove it was fun.

First I had to find a...

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Robert James Kehoe: His Story
The Muscio Family: Marin County Entrepreneurs since 1877

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