History of California License Plates

by Robert L. Harrison

Jim Sam: The Legendary Chinese Cowboy

by Dewey Livingston

Gold Fever in Marin County

Robert L. Harrison

Ernest L. Ransome — The Engineer Who Put the Steel in Concrete

Sterling Hayden and Marin Railroads

by Robert L. Harrison

How the Tiburon Peninsula was shaped by filling the Bay

Marin’s Pine Mountain Tunnel: 1918–2018

by Brad Rippe

1906 Earthquake: Story of the Cow caught in the Crack & the Traveling Trees

Sarsaparilla

by Robert L. Harrison

So called patent medicines were very popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries…

What’s Up with White’s Hill?

by Dewey Livingston

Baseball: A Marin Tradition

by Dewey Livingston

Golfing in Marin in 1923

by Laurie Thompson

The Hard Life of a Point Reyes Lighthouse Keeper

by Dewey Livingston

Marin Trivia

by Carol Acquaviva

Answers appear at the bottom of the page

From Swiss Cows to Italian Olives

by Dewey Livingston

Anti-Immigration Sentiments in Early Marin

Robert L. Harrison

The Mystery of South Marin Island

by Brian Crawford

Hazards of the Bolinas Shipping Trade

by Richard Nielsen

Marin Ferryboats Built by Captain Patrick Henry Tiernan

Revitalization of San Francisco’s North Beach & its impact on 19th Century Marin

A Rogue Marin County Pioneer

by Robert L. Harrison

A Boulevard from Tiburon to San Rafael

by Robert L. Harrison

E Street Public Graveyard & Mount Tamalpais Cemetery

by Carol Acquaviva

Remembering Nancy Kent Danielson (1926–2019)

by Laurie Thompson

Where did the Name “Las Gallinas” Really Come From?

by W. Edward Nute

William J. Thomas: Marin Railroad Genius

by Robert L. Harrison

Life-long San Rafael residents Teresa and Olivia Dalessi Treasured Their Swiss and Italian Roots

Railroad Construction Wreaks Havoc in West Marin

by Dewey Livingston

Tale of a Corte Madera Inn during Prohibition

by Laurie Thompson

The Great Train Wreck of 1903

by Dewey Livingston

Engineering Innovations Bring an Electric Railroad to Marin

Early History of Baseball

by Robert L. Harrison

Bolinas Pioneer George Burge

by Richard Nielsen

From Baltimore to San Francisco in 1849

by Laurie Thompson

Lime Point from Prominence to Obscurity

by Robert L. Harrison

Super-Highway on Viaduct to Break San Rafael Bottleneck

Golden Gate Bridge War on Ferries

by Robert L. Harrison

William L. Patterson: The first African American to attend Tamalpais High School

Sausalito or Saucelito

by Robert L. Harrison

Ted Hubbard’s “Cartoon-O-Maps” of Marin County

by Carol Acquaviva

Local Suffragists Form California’s First Women’s Undertaking Company

How San Rafael became Marin’s County Seat of Government

The Romany Club: Adventures of a Women’s Hiking Club

by Laurie Thompson

The Marin Municipal Ferry

by Robert L. Harrison

1918–1919: Trans-Pacific Radio silenced in West Marin

by Richard Nielsen

Suffragette Mary Simpson Sperry

by Peter Pike, Jr. and Laurie Thompson

The Golden Gate Freeway

by Robert L. Harrison

Shenanigans at San Quentin Prison

by Robert L. Harrison

Suffrage Leader Elizabeth Thacher Kent

by Laurie Thompson

Remembering William Sagar (1922–1918)

by Brian Sagar

Virginia Vail Keating & the Birth of the Anne T. Kent California Room

Marin Trivia, Part II

by Carol Acquaviva

Marion Hayes Cain recalls her debut in the 1925 Mountain Play

When San Rafael Aspired to Grow Like Oakland

by Robert L. Harrison

San Rafael’s Hopes for an Automobile Factory

by Robert L. Harrison

The Haunting of Laurel Swamp

by Laurie Thompson

The Marin County Canal

by Robert L. Harrison

Photo Mystery Solved: Booster Day and a Fleet of Greyhound Busses

Celebrating the Centennial of Alpine Dam, 1919–2019

by Laurie Thompson

Note: While our…

New Years in Marin during the Civil War Era

by Robert L. Harrison

George Black — A Civil Engineer with Integrity

by Robert L. Harrison

The Glory of San Rafael

by Robert L. Harrison

1908 San Rafael celebrates local Labor Unions

by Laurie Thompson

Memories of a Picnic with Rose Verrall

by Laurie Thompson

Realignment of White’s Hill Brings Food From Farm-to-Table

Four Captains Can’t Command a Ship

by Laurie Thompson

Infrastructure a Top Priority in Early Marin

by Robert L. Harrison

Thanksgiving Feasts in Marin

by Carol Acquaviva

Display Honors Veterans of World War I

by Carol Acquaviva

Try This One Weird Trick to Repeat History

by Carol Acquaviva

October 15, 2018: Visions of Marin: George Demont Otis, American Impressionist