*MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA*
1368 Listings
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Population:	247,289 2000 census
Area:	332,660 Acres
County Seat:	San Rafael* 1850 - present
Date: February 18, 1850	Original county

Mining Districts
Name		Type



Spanish Missions
Name		Date	Date Restored
Mission San Rafael Arcangel		December 14, 1817	1949 replica on approximate site
Historical Landmarks
Number	Name	Date
207	First Sawmill in Marin County	1834
210	Oldest House North of San Francisco Bay	1776
220	Mission San Rafael Arcangel	December 14, 1817
221	Site of the Lighter Wharf at Bolinas	1850
222	Lime Kilns	1812
529	Angel Island
552	Pioneer Paper Mill	November 1856
630	St. Vincent's School for Boys	1855
679	Home of Lord Charles Snowden Fairfax
917	Green Brae Brick Kiln
922	Outdoor Art Club	1904
924	China Camp	1870
974	Golden Gate Bridge	April 19, 1937
999	Marin County Civic Center	1962

Territorial History
1850	One of the 27 original counties
	Territory from or to no other county. Boundary alignment did change, to a small degree, the boundary only in the San Francisco Bay and no physical land boundary changed. The water came from San Francisco County.

*San Rafael was not the county seat at the beginning of 1850. The county was administered by Sonoma County for awhile.

The origin of its name is uncertain. One theory has the county named for Chief Marin, of the Licatiut Indians who inhabited that section of land. Another theory is that the bay between San Pedro and San Quentin points was named Bahia de Nuestra Senora del Rosario la Marinera by Ayala in 1775, and it is thought that Marin is an abbreviation of this.

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Census Totals
1850	1860	1870	1880
323	3,334	6,903	11,326