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Larkspur Hotel 1893

 
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 Brief History:

 Marin County is one of the original 27 counties of California, created February 18, 1850, following adoption of the
 California Constitution of 1849 and just months before the state was admitted to the Union. The Mission San Rafael
 Arcángel

 According to General Mariano Vallejo, who headed an 1850 committee to name California's counties, the county was named
 for "Marin," great chief of the tribe Licatiut." Marin had been named "Huicmuse" until he was baptized as "Marino" at about
 age 20. Marin / Marino was born into the Huimen people, a Coast Miwok tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the San
 Rafael area. Vallejo believed that "Chief Marin" had waged several fierce battles against the Spanish. Marino definitely did
 reside at Mission Dolores (in modern San Francisco) much of the time from his 1801 baptism and marriage until 1817,
 frequently serving as a baptism witness and godfather; he may have escaped and been recaptured at some point during that
 time. Starting in 1817, he served as an alcalde (in effect, an overseer) at the San Rafael Mission, where he lived from 1817
 off and on until his death. In 1821, Marino served as an expedition guide for the Spanish for a couple of years before
 escaping and hiding out for some months in the tiny Marin Islands (also named after him); his recapture resulted in a
 yearlong incarceration at the Presidio before his return to the Mission San Rafael area for about 15 years until his death in
 1839. In 2009, a plaque commemorating Chief Marin was placed in Mill Valley.

 Another version of the origin of the county name is that the bay between San Pedro Point and San Quentin Point was named
 Bahía de Nuestra Señora del Rosario la Marinera in 1775, and that Marin is simply an abbreviation of this name.



For information prior to county formation in 1893 you should also check Tulare county



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                    State Coordinator:  Bob Jenkins
     Assistant State Coordinator:
 Karen De Groote


 The CAGenWeb Project sincerely thanks the dedicated volunteers who devoted time and effort toward
 making  this site a  successful one:
 
Michael Nickle (1996 - 1999)
 Jana Black (1999 - 2005)
 Cathy Gowdy (2005 - 2008)
 Wallace Miceli (2009 - 2012)
 Marc Irish (2012 - 2021)







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