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Historical Articles

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"

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.)