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Pages in category "Unincorporated communities in Marin County, California" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
The Marin Art and Garden Center was founded in 1945 by women members of the Marin Conservation League. [5] [6] This project was led by the League's president, Caroline Sealy Livermore, who organized fundraising to obtain the $25,000 needed to buy the property. [3] [7] The site was the location for the Marin County Fair from 1947 to 1970. [6]
Skywalker Ranch is a movie ranch and the workplace of film director, writer and producer George Lucas located in a secluded area near Nicasio, California, in Marin County.The ranch is located on Lucas Valley Road, named after an early-20th-century landowner in the area of no relation to George Lucas. [1]
Looking south from the Marin Headlands. The land making up the Marin Headlands was purchased by the US military in 1851, shortly after California became a state, for the installation of coastal defense guns. Other than building Forts Barry, Baker, and Cronkhite, and planting trees and vegetation to camouflage the forts from attack, the Marin ...
Marin: San Pedro, Santa Margarita y Las Gallinas: 1844 Manuel Micheltorena: Timothy Murphy 21,679 acres (8,773 ha) 16 ND San Rafael: Marin: Soulajule: 1844 Manuel Micheltorena: José Ramón Mesa 10,898 acres (4,410 ha) 328 ND, 329 ND, 331 ND, 334 ND, 336 ND, 352 ND Marin: Blucher: 1844 Manuel Micheltorena: Jean Jacques Vioget: 26,759 acres ...
According to the records at the County Assessor-Recorder's Office, as of June 2006, Marin had 91,065 acres (369 km 2) of taxable land, consisting of 79,086 parcels with a total tax basis of $39.8 billion. These parcels are divided into the following classifications:
In the 1960s, the government sold over 2,000 acres (8 km 2) of land in the Marin Headlands to a private developer who planned to build a city named Marincello. The development was to house 30,000 people in 50 apartment towers, vast tracts of single-family homes, a shopping center, and a hotel along the Headlands' pristine shoreline and hills.
Rancho Punta de Quentin was a 8,877-acre (35.92 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Marin County, California, given in 1840 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to John B.R. Cooper. [1] The grant comprised not only the San Quentin peninsula, but also present-day Ross, Kentfield and part of San Anselmo. [2] [3] [4]