Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located about 14 miles (23 km) north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge and 52 miles (84 km) from Napa Valley. The population was 14,231 at the 2020 census. Mill Valley is located on the western and northern shores of Richardson Bay, and the eastern slopes of Mount ...
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.
Canal Area, San Rafael, California. Coordinates: 37°57′45″N 122°30′7″W. Aerial view of the San Rafael Canal, looking west. The northern tip of the Canal Area is on the left, with Pickleweed Park in the central foreground. The Canal Area comprises two neighborhoods of San Rafael, California, designated by the city as the "Canal ...
Puerto Suello Tunnel is a quarter-mile long rail tunnel in San Rafael, California. It was constructed in 1879, by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad. Background. The 1 ⁄ 4 mile (0.4 km) long tunnel was built in 1879 by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad. It was partially destroyed in 1961 by a fire, which was set by two boys.
January 5, 1984. ( #84000903) Alexander Avenue between Acacia and Monte Vista Avenues. 37°55′48″N 122°31′55″W. / 37.929978°N 122.532033°W / 37.929978; -122.532033 ( Alexander-Acacia Bridge) Larkspur. An old railroad bridge along the Northwestern Pacific right of way that is now a road bridge. It is one of 5 such bridge ...
Marin County Civic Center. 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 ...
The North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPC) was a common carrier 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge steam railroad begun in 1874 and sold in 1902 to new owners who renamed it the North Shore Railroad (California) (NSR) and rebuilt the southern section into a standard-gauge electric railway. The NPC operated in the northern California counties of Marin and ...
San Francisco and Eureka Railway formed by Southern Pacific Railroad in 1903 to build a connection from Willits to Eureka. Merged into NWP in 1907. San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (SF&NP) built from Donahue landing on the Petaluma River to Santa Rosa in 1870 and extended to Cloverdale in 1872. Extended from Petaluma to San Rafael in 1879.