These three houses were built between 1890 and 1893 for U.S. Marine Hospital Service Officers and their families.
The homes and the visitor center building below are the only remaining evidence of a bustling Quarantine Station.
The houses are . . . — — Map (db m203783) HM
Over 100,000 years ago Angel Island was part of the mainland and the ocean was 26 miles to the west. As glaciers from the last ice age melted, sea levels rose and saltwater filled the ancient river valley below, creating San Francisco Bay and Angel . . . — — Map (db m203781) HM
This chapel ministered to soldiers of all faiths. Built in 1942, in a style similar to other military chapels, it featured a vaulted ceiling and fiber board walls to enhance acoustics. Chapel services included “...Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, . . . — — Map (db m69298) HM
Horse- and mule-drawn wagons moved supplies throughout the immigration station until the 1930s. When cars were brought to the island, these stables were converted to garages. During World War II, the building was used to store linens. — — Map (db m203563) HM
The Army used “mule power” on the island until the 1930s to haul supplies and quarried rock. They pulled graders, mowing equipment, and garbage wagons. Soldiers stabled and cared for the mules in this barn. — — Map (db m203683) HM
Center Panel
Guardians of the Sky
Technological advances during World War II brought new threats to the Bay Area. Traditional weapons were useless against new, fast, high-flying jet planes. This need for better antiaircraft defense . . . — — Map (db m203629) HM
This palm tree marks the location of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad yard. From April 28, 1884 to September 25, 1967 hundreds of workers toiled to keep the railroad system and ferry boats operating. — — Map (db m210130) HM
On January 8, 1907, the Northwestern Pacific Railroad was
incorporated as a consolidation of seven railroads in northern California.
Jointly owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Atchinson Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway, its southern . . . — — Map (db m145141) HM
The San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (incorporated as the Northwestern Pacific Railroad in 1907) established its southernmost terminal in Tiburon in 1884. To improve freight handling facilities, the SF & NP built the ferryboat Ukiah, . . . — — Map (db m223324) HM
Old St. Hilary's Outhouse is the only "sanitary
privy” known to survive on the Tiburon Peninsula. It was constructed on an unknown date for the convenience of
churchgoers and used until circa 1940.
Early photographs and an oral history confirm . . . — — Map (db m193335) HM
Marker One:
St. Hilary’s Mission Church was built in 1888 as a place of worship for Tiburon’s Catholic railroad and dairy workers. This iconic hillside structure is one of the few remaining Carpenter Gothic churches in its original setting. . . . — — Map (db m222922) HM
Old St. Hilary’s Landmark is one of the few surviving examples of Carpenter Gothic in original condition and setting. Built in 1886 as a Roman Catholic Church, it was deconsecrated in 1954, and acquired by the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society in . . . — — Map (db m223554) HM
Marker One:
Roman Catholic Church from October 1888 to January 1954
Dedicated as a historical monument October 1960.
Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society
Marker Two:
St. Hilary’s Mission Church
1888 . . . — — Map (db m222910) HM
Surely this is one of the shortest Main Streets in America...
...and with plenty of character which hasn't really changed that much in spite of more than 100 years
of many fires and buildings being erected, enlarged, dismantled, moved or . . . — — Map (db m154673) HM
Famous for serving food tastier than standard “Army Chow” this mess hall could seat 1,410 soldiers at one time. During WW II there were three seatings for each meal, and the mess hall served more than 12,000 meals a day. A WW I soldier describing . . . — — Map (db m203622) HM
If you listen carefully, you can hear the crack of a bat and soldiers cheering as a Fort McDowell “Indian” rounds third base and heads for home – Cole Field. The ball park was home to the men’s baseball team, the . . . — — Map (db m69275) HM
Completed in 1911, the Administration Building was Fort McDowell’s clerical headquarters. This is where all “official mail” was distributed and personnel paperwork was processed.
The Pay Section, Discharge Officer, and Sergeant Major’s offices . . . — — Map (db m203627) HM
In 1891 the U.S. Marine Hospital Service, now the U.S. Public Health Service, opened a Quarantine Station in Ayala Cove. Marine Hospital Service officers inspected ships looking for signs of illness among the passengers and crew. If contagious . . . — — Map (db m69248) HM
Far-sighted residents captured a treasure for all when, after 84 years, the need for trains disappeared and the former railroad bed became the multipurpose path you are using today.
In this 1908 picture, a big engine steams along the bay right . . . — — Map (db m203898) HM
(Left photo caption:) In this 1947 photograph you see the buildings of the Navy housing on the left, the Hilarita Dairy, and the undeveloped Sugarloaf Mountain.
From the 1840's until WWII Tiburon land was
used primarily for ranching. The . . . — — Map (db m154719) HM
Immigrants were led from the ferry into the Examination Room, where they waited to be registered, processed and given a barracks assignment. Medical examinations were also conducted. Immigrants, particularly those unfamiliar with Western medicine, . . . — — Map (db m203430) HM
Samuel was born to Catherine and Charles Chapman of Mar West Street in Tiburon on April 11, 1916. He worked in his father’s merchandise store on Main Street and delivered mail for his father who also served as Tiburon’s Postmaster from 1915 to . . . — — Map (db m192548) HM
The view ahead could have looked quite different had the Reeds Port Project, a proposed development of several thousand homes, been built over Richardson Bay in the 1950s. Fortunately, this vital habitat was saved by concerned local residents who . . . — — Map (db m203902) HM
Reflecting the racism of the time, segregation existed throughout the Immigration Station. European and other non-Asian immigrants slept, dined, exercised, and were hospitalized separately from “Asiatics” (Chinese and Japanese). Men and women were . . . — — Map (db m203353) HM
Opened in 1910, the Angel Island immigration station hospital had separate doors and stairways during the first few years of its operation. Identified as “European” and “Non-European,” the two entrances were meant to divide immigrants based on race. . . . — — Map (db m203566) HM
In 1969, a visionary named Sam Shapero (who served as Tiburon’s Town Treasurer), decided that Blackie’s Pasture needed to be preserved and protected.
Sam did two things. He bought one-third of the land and donated it to a foundation he created – . . . — — Map (db m204147) HM
During WW I and WW II, Fort McDowell served as a Recruit Depot and later as an overseas Discharge and Replacement Depot. While some soldiers were stationed at Fort McDowell, others were here for only a week before being shipped overseas. During . . . — — Map (db m69280) HM
Cottages for Essential Staff and Families
Famed architect Julia Morgan designed twelve employee cottages. Nine were located along this slope and three were located on the hill above the Central Heating Plant. After the station closed, the . . . — — Map (db m203310) HM
As soldiers arrived at Fort McDowell they were issued uniforms and equipment from the Quartermasters Department operating under the “Director of Supply.” The post engineer’s office, located by the water, planned new buildings and mapped the post’s . . . — — Map (db m203624) HM
Built ca. 1922 after an earlier building was destroyed in the 1921 fire that burned most of downtown Tiburon.
This two-story structure originally held a billiards hall and soft drink parlor which is believed to have operated as an illegal saloon . . . — — Map (db m69201) HM
In 1863, Civil War was raging in the East and the threat of Confederate ships sailing into San Francisco Bay was real. The United States Army responded by sending Company B of the 3rd Artillery to establish Camp Reynolds as an artillery post on . . . — — Map (db m69250) HM
(Center Panel)
The Last Line of Defense
If you could travel back in time, you might find the earth shaking with the boom of artillery practice. During the Civil War, the army considered this an ideal location to set up guns to protect . . . — — Map (db m203777) HM
This 1974 photo shows the Olson Boat Works, one of the last vestiges of the olden days along the multi-use path. The building was demolished soon after this photo was taken, to make way for a new house on land that was the target of vigorous but . . . — — Map (db m203891) HM
Fort McDowell’s North Garrison was built in 1942 on the area below following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. North Garrison included several barracks, a 1600-man mess hall, an infirmary, a guard house, and a post exchange. It also included the . . . — — Map (db m70259) HM
Downtown Tiburon and Harbor
Originally name “Punta de Tiburon” (Shark Point) by Spanish explorers in 1775, downtown Tiburon today is a quaint village in an extraordinary waterfront setting. You’ll find delightful shops and enticing . . . — — Map (db m203883) HM
(Left photo caption:)
The trestle, which crossed Tiburon Boulevard, was a landmark for 84 years until it was torn down in 1968, a year after the last train rumbled over its sturdy wooden framework. This picture is from the 1930s. The berm . . . — — Map (db m154670) HM
After a long ocean voyage, an immigrant’s first steps on U.S. soil was on a wharf leading to this Immigration Station. They were soon immersed in unfamiliar surroundings, a foreign language, new customs and an uncertain fate.
”It was a . . . — — Map (db m203484) HM
Constructed in 1885 as
part of the San Francisco
and North Pacific Railroad
Tiburon Terminal, this
Depot was the railroad and
ferry link to San Francisco
until 1967. The Terminal,
opened in 1884, served
passengers and freight.
The Depot . . . — — Map (db m145142) HM
(Left photo caption:) The magnificent ferry, Ukiah, was built in the Tiburon railroad yards and launched in January, 1891. She could carry
4,000 passengers and 16 loaded freight cars.
long and 78-feet wide, she was among the largest . . . — — Map (db m154679) HM
(Upper photo:) With the Tiburon Trestle completed, trains first came to Tiburon in 1884. In 1907, the Northwestern Pacific Railroad was formed and Tiburon was fast becoming a "railroad town.” By 1924, four locomotives a day, . . . — — Map (db m154605) HM
Construction for this 70-bed hospital began in 1911. The hospital treated soldiers returning from overseas for discharge. In 1918, the hospital annex was added to care for men with lingering illnesses.
During the Nike Missile period . . . — — Map (db m69301) HM
Center Panel:
Fencing Out Freedom
Although it is often compared to Ellis Island, Angel Island was not a place of welcome. Instead, it was used to keep immigrants, specifically those from China, out.
The US Immigration Station . . . — — Map (db m203307) HM
Never Enough Water at the Station
Wells, springs and run-off could not supply enough fresh water for the station. This 300,000 gallong concrete reservoir and five large wooden water tanks were built to store water. To keep them full, a barge . . . — — Map (db m203350) HM
“That’s me. I have many happy memories of running down to the road to wave to the trains. Suzie Wosser, Jeff Teather and I did that at least once a day when we weren’t in school.”
Meredith (Linman) Rolfe
Four trains a day . . . — — Map (db m203894) HM
For 84 years, from 1884 to 1967, Tiburon was a railroad town. It started when rail pioneer Peter Donahue moved his North Bay operations down from Petaluma to Point Tiburon to become the rail and ferry terminus for the San Francisco & North Pacific . . . — — Map (db m204399) HM
Once the land of the Miwok, Tomales was founded in 1850 by John Keys who shipped potatoes to San Francisco and Warren Dutton who opened the Post Office in 1854. Shipping ended with the siltation of the estuary. From 1875 to 1930 the narrow gauge . . . — — Map (db m54753) HM
Erected and acquired in 1874 by the Tomales Temperance Social Club, this is one of the oldest continuously used public halls in California. Renovated after the 1906 Earthquake, maintained by town hall trustees and local volunteers, it has served as . . . — — Map (db m88400) HM
Warren Dutton, (1823-1903) co-founder of Tomales, came here from the gold fields in 1852, staked a claim to what is now known as Upper Town, and became partners with John Keys. Within a few years the relationship deteriorated, but the bitter . . . — — Map (db m54784) HM
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