History of Marin County

The history of Marin County started with its founding in the 18th February 1850 and shortly after the adoption of the Constitution of the State of California in 1849. Marin County had the historic distinction of becoming one of the original 27 counties and the State had taken a few months before the State Union. Marin County is currently one of 58 counties in California and is located in North San Francisco Bay Area and across the Golden Gate Bridge from SanFrancisco.

According to the latest census, the population of Marin County has exceeded 260,000 and the county seat is San Rafael, Marin County is home to the largest employer in the county.

Marin County is known for its abundance of nature and its wide range of topographical beauty, sites such as the Muir Woods Redwood Forest, the Marin headlands, Stinson Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore and Mount Tamalpais mountain bike, which was also recognizedinvented.

Marin County is also for the prosperity of his people, who had attracted the highest per capita income of over $ 48,000 a year and the third highest average personal income is known with more than $ 85,000 a year in the country.

As Marin County owes its name and history associated with it is a mystery. An account is the root of Licatiut Miwok Native Americans who inhabited the coastal region and one of their leaders named Marin, who vehementlytries, the first Spanish explorers to frustrate there. Another account refers to 1775 and claims that Marin County only a shortened version of the original name for the bay between San Pedro Point and San Quentin Point, Bahía de Nuestra Señora del Rosario La Marinara.

The Coast Miwok were one of the largest groups of Miwok Indians and their ancestors in the general area of modern Marin County, and livedSouthern Sonoma County in an area between the Golden Gate Bridge north to the point of Duncan and eastward to Sonoma Creek about five years. The Coast Miwok prospered peacefully mainly from earth and the ocean from the abundant hunting and gathering. Archaeologists, historians and researchers estimate that divided the coast Miwok in the thousands and included at least 600 different villages scattered throughout the region Marin County. Unfortunately, fewCoast Miwok are still there today, and most of them are not even aware of its rich heritage.

Many European explorers, pirates and missionaries began to flock to the region in the sixteenth century. Sir Francis Drake landed in 1579 and claimed the land for the then King of England. Following in the footsteps of Drake, a Spanish explorer named Sebastian Cermeño his ship docked in what is now Drake's Bay in 1595.

The history of Marin County has been forgedthousands of years by indigenous tribes, but the Spanish Mission San Rafael Arcángel founded in 1817 at what is now downtown San Rafael. This mission was the first European settlement in Marin County, and seemed to have been built, at least in part, the Russian reaction to the construction of Fort Ross in Sonoma County, northern neighbor Marin County.