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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Marin County, California
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
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Placed here and renovated in 1960.
Parking lot below was a brackish lagoon before it was filled in 1929. — — Map (db m69436) HM |
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Moved here in 1960.
Home of railroad workers and fishermen, Tiburon’s first settlers. — — Map (db m69364) HM |
| | Bay access provided a source of illegal spirits during Prohibition. — — Map (db m69360) HM |
| | Built in 1911, this concrete barracks building could house 686 men. By WW II, Fort McDowell has quarters for about 4,500 soldiers, including fourteen additional wooden barracks that once stood between the baseball field and this 600-man barracks. . . . — — Map (db m69276) HM |
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In 1775, the packet San Carlos, first known Spanish ship to enter San Francisco Bay, anchored in this cove while her commander, Lieut. Juan Manuel de Ayala, directed the first survey of the bay. Ayala named this island Isla de los Angeles. . . . — — Map (db m143405) HM |
| | Lieut. Juan de Ayala of the Royal Spanish Navy sailed through the Golden Gate on Aug. 5, 1775. He commanded the packet-boat San Carlos, which was the first known ship in the waters of San Francisco Bay. On the 13th day of August, Ayala anchored this . . . — — Map (db m69206) HM |
| | A great morale builder, Fort McDowell’s bowling alley opened in 1944, sporting six lanes. Fort McDowell’s bowling teams – the “Jail Birds,” “Brass Hats,” and the "McDowell Mermaids” competed against teams from . . . — — Map (db m69299) HM |
| | This brick hospital, built in 1904, was the third hospital to be built for Camp Reynolds. The Army located hospitals treating ill and injured soldiers away from buildings housing healthy troops to prevent the spread of disease and fear. — — Map (db m69249) HM |
| | In 1954 Angel Island became one of nineteen Nike Missile sites in the Bay Area. There were three underground magazines, each storing 12 Nike – Ajax anti-aircraft missiles. The missiles had a range of 25 miles and were raised to the surface by . . . — — Map (db m69253) HM |
| | Battery Ledyard, built in 1899, was one of three Angel Island batteries installed to defend San Francisco Bay. Located at Point Knox, it was armed with two five-inch wire wound guns. Battery Ledyard was named for Lt. August C. Ledyard, 6th Infantry, . . . — — Map (db m69251) HM |
| | THE STONE TOWER (also called the Stone Lodge, the Castle, or just Lyford's Tower) was designed and built about 1889 by the San Francisco architect Gustav A. Behrnd for Dr. Benjamin F. Lyford, retired inventor, physician and scientist, as the gateway . . . — — Map (db m91807) HM |
| | 1889
Rebuilt in 1918
Spiral staircase added in 1956
On pilings until lagoon was filled in 1929. Mrs. Fleming only rented to railroad workers ‘of good character’. — — Map (db m69362) HM |
| | The Post Exchange, or PX, was built in 1910 to be a “one stop shopping place” for soldiers at Fort McDowell. Soldiers purchased clothing toiletries, and other supplies here. The PX also offered a restaurant, soda fountain, barbershop, . . . — — Map (db m69279) HM |
| | The Guard House served as headquarters for the Officers of the Guard and the Sergeant of the Guard, and as quarters for soldiers assigned to guard detail. Guard duty could last a day, a week, or longer. Guards patrolled their post for 24-hour . . . — — Map (db m69278) HM |
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(Left photo caption:) The "Hilarita” flagstop station for the Northwest Pacific Railroad, built in 1884, served the Hilarita Dairy. The dairy was
named for Hilarita Reed Lyford, daughter of Hilaria Sanchez and John Thomas Reed, . . . — — Map (db m154818) HM |
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(Upper left photo:) The Tiburon Trestle, completed in 1883, was a 750-foot redwood structure that spanned mostly marshland before
attaching to earthen berms at each end. The trestle support beams, which are in front of you, and the berm, . . . — — Map (db m154604) HM |
| | In 1979, local restaurant owner "Trader" Vic Bergeron donated this monument in recognition of the contributions of Chinese immigrants to America. Originally located at the site of the former Asiatic Dining Hall, it was relocated to this overlook in . . . — — Map (db m91809) HM |
| | At this site – 34 Main St.
James Yeh Jau Liu
(1910 - 2003)
World Renowned Chinese Watercolorist
and
Tiburon’s Artist Laureate
Operated Han Syl Studio from 1967 to 2003
Over the 35 years of offering his paintings to . . . — — Map (db m69203) HM |
| | -1886-
Rented Boats, Arks, and Cottages — — Map (db m69205) 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 |
| | This palm tree marks the location of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad yard. From April 28, 1884 to September 25, 1967 hundred of workers toiled to keep the railroad system and ferry boats operating. — — Map (db m69359) 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 |
| | 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 |
| | 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 |
| | 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 |
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(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 |
| | 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 1941. . . . — — Map (db m69305) 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 |
| | 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 |
| | 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 |
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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 |
| | 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 |
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(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 |
| | 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 |
| | Founded 1865
has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m102639) 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 rivalry . . . — — Map (db m54784) HM |
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