The history of Marin County started with its creation in February 18, 1850 and just after the adoption of the Constitution of the State of California in 1849. Marin County had the historic distinction of becoming one of the state's original 27 counties and that was several months before the state was admitted into the Union. Currently, Marin County is one of 58 counties in California and is located in the North San Francisco Bay Area and across the Golden Gate Bridge from the city of San Francisco.
As of the most recent census, the population of Marin County had surpassed 260,000 and the county seat is located in San Rafael with the county government being Marin County's largest employer.
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Marin County is recognized for its wealth of nature and its widely varied topographic beauty that includes sites such as the Muir Woods Redwood Forest, the Marin Headlands, Stinson Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore and Mount Tamalpais which is where mountain biking was allegedly invented.
Marin County is also well known for the affluence of its residents who had been drawing the highest per capita income with over ,000 per year and the third highest mean personal income with well over ,000 per year in the nation.
How Marin County got its name and the history associated with it is a mystery. One account points to the Licatiut tribe of the Coast Miwok Native Americans who inhabited the region and one of their chieftains named Marin who fiercely attempted to thwart the early Spanish explorers from settling there. Another account points back to 1775 and claims that Marin County is merely an abbreviated version of the original name for the bay between San Pedro Point and San Quentin Point, Bahía de Nuestra Señora Del Rosario la Marinera.
The Coast Miwok were one of the largest groups of the Miwok Native American people and their early ancestors dwelled in the general area of the modern day Marin County as well as southern Sonoma County in a territory stretching between the Golden Gate Bridge north to Duncan's Point and east to Sonoma Creek for approximately five thousand years. The Coast Miwok thrived peacefully off the abundant land and ocean by predominantly hunting and gathering. Archeologists, historians and researchers estimate that the Coast Miwok numbered in the thousands and were apportioned among at least 600 distinct villages scattered throughout the Marin County region. Sadly, only a few Coast Miwok are still in existence today and most of them are not even aware of their own rich heritage.
Many European explorers, privateers and missionaries began flocking to the region as early as the sixteenth century. Sir Francis Drake landed in 1579 and claimed the land for the then king of England. Following in Drake's footsteps, a Spanish explorer named Sebastian Cermeno docked his ship in what is now called Drake's Bay in 1595.
The history of Marin County was forged thousands of years ago by indigenous tribes but the Spaniards established Mission San Rafael Arcángel in 1817 at the site that is today's downtown San Rafael. This mission became the first permanent European settlement in Marin County and it seemed to have been built, at least in part, in response to the Russian building of Fort Ross in Sonoma County, Marin County's northern neighbor.
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