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The John Muir National Historic Site is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Martinez, Contra Costa County, California. It preserves the 14-room Italianate Victorian mansion where the naturalist and writer John Muir lived, as well as a nearby 325-acre (132 ha) tract of native oak woodlands and grasslands historically owned by the Muir family.
Martinez (Spanish: Martínez) [9] [10] is a city in and the county seat of Contra Costa County, California, United States, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. [11] Located on the southern shore of the Carquinez Strait , the city's population was 37,287 at the 2020 census .
In 1897, for the sum of $10 in gold (equivalent to $366 in 2023), John Muir and Louisa Muir ceded a right of way to the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad. [1] The agreement describes the land upon which a trestle bridge was to be located: [1] through a pear orchard. [2] The span was completed in 1899. [1]
The Vicente Martínez Adobe is an historic adobe house near Martinez, California. The house was built in 1849 by Vicente J. Martínez on the Rancho El Pinole, a land grant that had been given to his father, Ygnacio Martínez, in 1836. It was the first of its kind built in Contra Costa County. In 1853 the adobe was sold Edward Franklin, after ...
Martinez (Spanish: Martínez) is a populated place on the lands of the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians in Riverside County, California. It lies at an elevation of −135 feet (−41 meters). It lies at an elevation of −135 feet (−41 meters).
Muir Commons is a cohousing development located in Davis, California. [1] Completed in 1991, Muir Commons was designed by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett at McCamant & Durrett Architects and is known for being the first new-construction cohousing development in the United States. [ 2 ]
In January 2011 the Martinez City Council voted to annex those portions of Pacheco north of California State Route 4. In September 2011, Martinez reached a tax sharing deal to pave the way forward for the annexation. [10] In March 2012, sufficient protests were registered to force an election on the issue. [11]