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Historical Articles

Biographies
The Vanderbilt Story
Frank Morrison Pixley
Louisiana Scott Foster
Marin Vaqueros
Tom Vaquero
The Mission San Rafael Arcángel, founded 1817
A Map of San Rafael, 1818-1850
A History of Mission San Rafael, Archangel
An Oral Account of Life at Mission San Rafael, as told by Juan Garcia (from The Independent, August 14, 1917)
The Bells of Mission San Rafael
The Mission Spring of San Rafael, Archangel
The Wreck of the San Rafael, November 30, 1901
The Wreck of the Ferry San Rafael
The Earthquake of April 18, 1906
Voices
From the Past:
Two earthquake letters from San Rafael
Robert Dollar (1844–1932)
The Life of Robert Dollar
A Lumberman at Heart
Margaret S. Dollar
Falkirk
What Robert Dollar Gave to Marin
Louise Arner Boyd (1887–1972)
The
Call of the Arctic: Travels of Louise Boyd
From Bodie to B Street: The Making of the Boyd Fortune
Mount Tamalpais Military Academy, 1890–1925
The Mount Tamalpais Military Academy
The Golden Gate Bridge, completed 1937
"...do not bridge the Golden Gate."
Opposition to the Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge Comes Alive
The Marin County Civic Center, opened 1962
A Place for the People's Government
A Man of "Honest Arrogance" - Frank Lloyd Wright
Marin's Roads & Rails
The Bothin Tunnel on White's Hill
"Sir Francis Drake Highway Follows Route of 'Pack Trail' Says Old Pioneer"
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George T. Wood also known as "Tom Vaquero." (Photo courtesy of Mrs. Josephine Paulson.)

The earthquake tipped these hotels into
the Bolinas Lagoon. (Photo courtesy of the Bolinas Museum.)

The new stone Church of the Assumption in
Tomales, built in 1900. (Photo courtesy of the California State
Library.)

Eight months after the earthquake, the church
is still a pile of rubble. Luckily, Tomales’s older church
survived the earthquake and is still in use today. (Photo courtesy
of the California State Library.)
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