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Attempts by the San Francisco Foundation to use the cy pres doctrine to spend outside of Marin County resulted in litigation which the SF Foundation lost. [8] [10] As part of a 1986 court settlement, the Marin Community Foundation was established to administer the trust, valued in 2013 at approximately $1 billion. [11]
Location of Marin County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marin County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marin County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Marinscope, Inc. was founded by Paul Anderson and his wife Billie in 1971. [1] In 1998, business magnate Vijay Mallya bought Marinscope from Anderson. [2] [3] In 2008, Marinscope bought the newspaper Novato Advance from Scripps Enterprises, a company in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Museum of the American Indian (formerly the Marin Museum of the American Indian) was founded in 1967 and is located in Novato, California, U.S. Situated on the site of a former Coast Miwok settlement. [1] The museum is within the 35 acres (14 ha) of Miwok Park in northern Marin County.
Novato includes ten Marin County Open Space District preserves: Mount Burdell, Rush Creek, Little Mountain, Verissimo Hills, Indian Tree, Deer Island, Indian Valley, Ignacio Valley, Loma Verde, and Pacheco Valle. Although Novato is located on the water, access to the water is blocked by expansive farmland and wetlands.
The College of Marin, (known as Marin Junior College, 1926-1947) is a public community college in Marin County, California, with two campuses, one in Kentfield, and the second in Novato. It is the only institution operated by the Marin Community College District. The College of Marin has been in operation since 1926.
The 1,700 square feet (160 m 2) museum is housed within Marin County's Novato Art Center in Building 500, once the Headquarters of the decommissioned Hamilton Air Force Base. [2] The architectural style, resembling a California mission , [ 3 ] was in keeping with the airfield's Spanish eclectic style with features such as reinforced concrete ...
Rancho Corte Madera de Novato was a 8,879-acre (35.93 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day Marin County, California given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado to John Martin. [1] The name means the "lumber mill of Novato". The grant extended along Hicks Valley north west of present day Novato. [2] [3] [4]