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The Marin County Civic Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is located in San Rafael, California, the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. Groundbreaking for the Civic Center Administration Building took place in 1960, after Wright's death and under the watch of Wright's protégé, Aaron Green; it was completed in 1962 ...
Hands-on discovery center focused on the natural environment, ecosystems, and cultural heritage of Cachuma Lake, the upper Santa Ynez River and San Rafael Mountain watershed Oak Canyon Nature Center: Anaheim: Orange: 58 acres, live animal and regional natural history exhibits, operated by the City Oak Grove Nature Center Stockton: San Joaquin
Originally it was the San Rafael Primitive Area. Due to a disagreement between the Forest Service, US Congress and conservationists over 2,200 acres (8.9 km 2 ) of natural grass openings called portreros , which contained pictographs from the Chumash Indians, it took a long time for the wilderness designation. [ 7 ]
Sedgwick Reserve is a 5,896-acre (2,386 ha) nature reserve in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.It is located in the San Rafael Mountains, 35 miles north of Santa Barbara near the town of Santa Ynez. [2]
Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded as the 20th Spanish mission in the colonial province of Alta California by three priests—Father Narciso Durán from Mission San José, Father Abella from Mission San Francisco de Asís, Father Luis Gíl y Taboada from La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles—on December 14, 1817, four years before Mexico gained independence from Spain.
The Marin Islands are located offshore from the city of San Rafael, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area.The islands comprise the Marin Islands National Wildlife Refuge, which was established in 1992.
The "East San Rafael" area (the eastern portion of the Canal Area between the Bay and San Quentin Ridge), was home to most of the garbage disposal sites in central Marin County, including the following (links are to the California Integrated Waste Management Board, Solid Waste Information System, which is continuously updated):
The hillside campus of Art Center College of Design, a Pasadena historic resource, is located in the San Rafael Hills.. Ernest E. Debs Regional Park is a large nature preserve and regional park in the western section of the hills, with walking and bicycle trails.