Mill Valley, California
Mill Valley, California Mill Valley City Hall Mill Valley City Hall Mill Valley, California is positioned in the US Mill Valley, California - Mill Valley, California Mill Valley is a town/city in Marin County, California, United States, positioned about 14 miles (23 km) north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge.
Mill Valley is positioned on the and northern shores of Richardson Bay, and the easterly slopes of Mount Tamalpais.
The Mill Valley 94941 ZIP code also includes the following adjoining unincorporated communities: Almonte, Alto, Homestead Valley, Tamalpais Valley, and Strawberry.
6.2 Mill Valley Public Library 8 Arts and crafts in Mill Valley More than 600 village sites have been identified,including 14 sites in the Mill Valley area.
In Mill Valley, on Locust Avenue between Sycamore and Walnut Avenues, there is now a metal plaque set in the sidewalk in the region believed to be the place of birth of Chief Marin in 1871; the plaque was dedicated on 8 May 2009. The village site was first identified by Nels Nelson in 1907 and his excavation revealed tools, burials and food debris just beyond the driveway of 44 Locust Ave.
Another famous Mill Valley site was in the Manzanita region underneath the Fireside Inn (previously known as the Manzanita Roadhouse, Manzanita Hotel, Emil Plasberg's Top Rail, and Top Rail Tavern, most of which were notorious Prohibition-era gin joints and brothels) positioned near the intersection of U.S.
Beginning with the foundation of Mission San Francisco de Asis, generally known as Mission Dolores, in 1776, the Coast Miwok of southern Marin began to slowly enter the mission, first those from Sausalito followed by those from areas we now know as Mill Valley, Belvedere, Tiburon and Bolinas.
Richardson's name was later applied to Richardson Bay, an arm of the San Francisco Bay that brushes up against the easterly edge of Mill Valley.
He assembled the first sawmill in the county on the Cascade Creek (now Old Mill Park) in the mid-1830s on Richardson's rancho and settled near what is now Locke Lane and La - Goma Avenue. The foundry cut wood for the San Francisco Presidio.
The rest of the rancho, including the part of what is now Mill Valley that did not already belong to Reed's heirs, was given to his administrator Samuel Reading Throckmorton.
In Mill Valley, Ranch "B" is one of the several remaining dairy farm buildings and is positioned near the parking lot at the Tennessee Valley trailhead. Throckmorton also suffered devastating financial enigma before his death in 1887.
His surname would later be applied to one of the primary thoroughfares in Mill Valley.
Richardson's heirs successfully sued Reed's heirs in 1860 claiming the foundry was assembled on their property.
It was Richardson's territory that would soon turn into part of Mill Valley when Throckmorton's daughter Suzanna was forced to relinquish a several thousand acres to the San Francisco Savings & Union Bank to satisfy a debt of $100,000 against the estate in 1889. The adobe structure is still standing and connected to a home on West Blithedale Avenue; it is the earliest structure in Mill Valley.
Although Reed, Richardson, and the Cushings were crucial to bringing citizens to the Mill Valley area, it was Eastland who really propelled the region and set the foundation for the town/city today.
Mill Valley before 1900.
Mill Valley before 1900.
Mill Valley 1910 postcard Similar view of Mill Valley, about 1910, as pictured on a souvenir postcard with the caption 'Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais, Showing Crookedest Railroad, California'.
By 1892, there were two schools in the region and a several churches. The auction also brought into Mill Valley architects, builders, and craftsmen.
Cushing, the owner of the Blithedale Hotel, had service. After the territory auctions the region was known as both "Eastland" and "Mill Valley". Tamalpais & Muir Woods Scenic Railway, "The Crookedest Railroad in the World" and its unique Gravity Cars brought thousands of tourists to the Tavern of Tamalpais on the mountain summit (built in 1896, rebuilt after the 1923 fire, and razed in 1950 by the California State Parks), the West Point Inn (built in 1904, by the scenic stockyards , directed commercially until 1943, closed briefly and then run by volunteers to present day, ), and the Muir Woods Inn (burned in 1913, rebuilt in 1914, finished in 1930). The tracks were removed in 1930 after the 1929 fire.
Rails connected Mill Valley with neighboring metros/cities and commuters to San Francisco via ferries. While much of San Francisco and Marin County was devastated, many fled to Mill Valley and most never left.
The Post Office opened under the name "Eastland", however after many objections it was changed to "Mill Valley" in 1904. The very first Mountain Play was performed at the Mountain Theater on Mt.
Mill Valley Italian pioneer made wine amid Prohibition, while some small-town bar owners made bootleg whiskey under the dense foliage around the small-town creeks. January 1922 saw the first of a several years of snow in Marin County, coating Mt.
Two years later the Sulphur Springs, a natural hot spring where locals could revive their lagging spirits, was veiled over and turned in the playground of the Old Mill Elementary School.1929 was a year of great change for Mill Valley.
Panoramic Highway, running between Mill Valley and Stinson Beach was assembled in 1929-1930.
During the Great Depression, many famous small-town landmarks were constructed with the help of the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps, including the Mead Theater at Tam High (named after school board Trustee Ernest Mead), the Mountain Theater modern seating, and the Golden Gate Bridge in 1934-1937. The latter event suspended ferry commuting between Marin and the town/city from 1941 through 1970 and helped increase the Marin population.
In Sausalito, Marinship brought over 75,000 citizens to Marin, many of whom moved to Mill Valley permanently.
By 1950, 1 in 10 Mill Valleyans were living in a "Goheen Home".
With a populace just over 7,000 by 1950, Mill Valley was still mostly rural.
The military assembled the Mill Valley Air Force Station to protect the region during the Korean War.
The Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival became a permanent annual event and the old Carnegie library was replaced with an award-winning library at 375 Throckmorton Ave.
Mill Valley became an region associated with great wealth, with many citizens making their millions in San Francisco and moving north.
Youth subculture would come under attack again in 1974 when the City Council banned live music, first at the Sweetwater and later at the Old Mill Tavern, both now defunct. In 1977, the Lucretia Hanson Little History Room in the library opened and became the base of operations for the Mill Valley Historical Society.
The rainfall amid the winter of 1977-78 was one of the heaviest on record. The Mill Valley Film Festival, now part of the California Film Institute, began in 1978 at the Sequoia Theatre.
The 1980s and 1990s saw the diminish of small businesses in Mill Valley.
Old Mill Tavern, O'Leary's, and the Unknown Museum shut their doors, as did Red Cart Market and Tamalpais Hardware.
The populace in the town/city alone swelled over 13,000 and many of the old, narrow, winding streets interval clogged with traffic congestion. The Public Library period with a new Children's Room, a downstairs Fiction Room, and Internet computers. It also joined MARINet, a consortium of all the enhance libraries in Marin, to allow patrons greater access to information.
MARINet now has an online catalogue of all the materials, both physical and electronic, in the Marin enhance libraries, which patrons can order, pick up, and drop off materials at any of the participating libraries. The Old Mill also got a face lift; it was rebuilt to the same specifications of the initial in 1991.
Soon after Mill Valley got its brand new Community Center at 180 Camino Alto, adjoining to Mill Valley Middle School.
On January 31, 2008, Mill Valley's sewage treatment plant spilled 2.45 million gallons of sewage into the San Francisco Bay. This marked the second such spill in Mill Valley inside a week (the previous one spilled 2.7 million gallons), and the most recent of a several that occurred in Marin County in early 2008. Mill Valley's treatment plant attributed the spills to "human error". The spills caused distress in Mill Valley's administrative government, which remains outspoken about "dedicating itself to the protection of air character, waste reduction, water and energy conservation, and the protection of wildlife and surrounding" in Mill Valley. The Mill Valley 94941 region lies between Mt.
Tamalpais through Mill Valley to the bay: the Arroyo Corte Madera del Presidio; and Cascade Creek.
Mill Valley is surrounded by hundreds of acres (hectares) of state, federal, and county park lands.
In addition, there are many municipally maintained open-space reserves, parks, and coastal surroundings which, when taken together, ensconce Mill Valley in a natural wilderness.
This close and constant adjacency to nature has left generations of Mill Valley inhabitants with a strong sense of conservancy toward much of this natural surrounding.
Mill Valley has a number of scenic and natural features which provides momentous surrounding for fishes, marine mammals, and other biota.
Mill Valley and the Homestead Valley Land Trust maintains many minimally disturbed wildland areas and preserves which are open to the enhance from sunrise to dusk everyday.
Tamalpais that overlooks Mill Valley.
Tennessee Valley positioned in Tamalpais Valley, off Shoreline Highway Mill Valley has a mild Mediterranean climate which results in mostly wet winters and very dry summers.
California coastal fog often affects Mill Valley, making relative humidity highly variable.
Climate data for Mill Valley, California Mill Valley is also affected by microclimate conditions in the a several box canyons with steep north-facing slopes and dense forests which span the southern and town/city limits, which, along with the coastal fog, all conspire to make many of the dense forested regions of Mill Valley noticeably cooler and moister, on average, than other regions of town.
This microclimate is what makes for the favorable ecology required by the Coastal Redwood forests which still cover much of the town and encircling area, and have played such a pivotal part throughout the history of Mill Valley (see "History" above).
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Mill Valley had a populace of 13,903.
The ethnic makeup of Mill Valley was 12,341 (88.8%) White, 118 (0.8%) African American, 23 (0.2%) Native American, 755 (5.4%) Asian, 14 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 152 (1.1%) from other competitions, and 500 (3.6%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 3,291 citizens (23.7%) under the age of 18, 459 citizens (3.3%) aged 18 to 24, 2,816 citizens (20.3%) aged 25 to 44, 4,714 citizens (33.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,623 citizens (18.9%) who were 65 years of age or older.
In the United States House of Representatives, Mill Valley is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. From 2008 to 2012, Huffman represented Marin County in the California State Assembly.
In the California State Legislature, Mill Valley is in: The combination of Mill Valley's idyllic locale nestled beneath Mount Tamalpais coupled with its relative ease of access to close-by San Francisco has made it a prominent home for many high-income commuters.
Over the last 30 years, following a trend that is endemic throughout the Bay Area, home prices have climbed in Mill Valley (the median price for a single-family home was in excess of $1.5 million as of 2005), which has had the effect of pushing out some inhabitants who can no longer afford to live in the area.
This trend has also transformed Mill Valley's commercial activity, with nationally recognized music store Village Music having closed, then replaced in 2008 by more commercial establishments. In July 2005, CNN/Money and Money periodical ranked Mill Valley tenth on its list of the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States. In 2007, MSN and Forbes periodical ranked Mill Valley seventy-third on its "Most expensive zip codes in America" list. While Mill Valley has retained elements of its earlier creative culture through arcades, festivals, and performances, its stock of affordable housing has diminished, forcing some inhabitants to leave the area.
Both suburban conservative and West coast liberal elements have shaped the sociocultural and theological life of Mill Valley and the rest of Marin County.
It has the Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church, and Mill Valley is home to a Greek Catholic church from its many Greek and Grico (Greeks in Italy/ Italian) immigrants, as well the Southern Baptist Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, and has one of seven Seventh Day Baptist churches (the Mill Valley Seventh Day Baptist Church) in California, but one of two in the San Francisco Bay area. In the early 2010s, registered Democrats outnumbered small-town Republicans by 5 to 1, a common trait in metros/cities around heavily Liberal-Progressive San Francisco, but Mill Valley also shows a Libertarian political trend.
Strawberry is an unincorporated census-designated place to the east of the City of Mill Valley.
The other CDP with a Mill Valley mailing address is Tamalpais-Homestead Valley.
Muir Beach is in the Mill Valley School District, but it is in the Sausalito mailing area.
Neighborhoods in the Mill Valley area: Edgewood Cypress Enchanted Knolls Eucalyptus Knolls Homestead Valley Kite Hill Land of Peter Pan Marin Terrace Marin View Middle Ridge Mill Valley Heights Mill Valley Meadows Miller Avenue Molino Edgewood Muir Woods Old Mill Panoramic Highway Scott Highlands Scott Valley Sequoia Valley Shelter Bay Shelter Ridge Strawberry Sycamore Sycamore Park Tam Junction Tamalpais Valley Tamalpais Park Tennessee Valley Vernal Heights Warner Canyon Close to Old Mill Park and Mill Valley Public Library, the setting of this home, assembled by painter Tilden Daken, is typical of the homes sprinkled amongst the redwoods of the Cascade Canyon region in Mill Valley.
Mill Valley maintains many recreational parks which often contain playgrounds and other designated areas specifically designed for playing various sports.
Mill Valley has a costly but prominent "steps, lanes, and paths program" that provides improved pedestrian access between many of the winding and twisting residentiary roads that cover the hillsides.
For those who prefer to appreciate nature from the comfort of a chair, the city's enhance library is nestled in a serene and scenic locale at the edge of Old Mill Park where visitors may relax indoors near the wood-burning fireplace and view the redwood forest through the library's multi-storied windows, or from the outside deck which overlooks the park and Cascade Creek.
Tenderfoot Trail (1.5 miles): Lower trail head is on Cascade Drive between Cascade Falls park and the lower trail head of the Zigzag trail.
This upper trail head provides access to the Edgewood trail, and also provides gateway access to the upper region of Muir Woods, Tamalpais State Park near the Alice Eastwood Campsite access road, and the chief southern access point Mt.
Zigzag Trail (0.5 mile, steep climb): This is a very steep trail which has an upper trail head near the Throckmorton Ridge Fire Station and the Mountain Home Inn with gateway access to the upper region of Muir Woods, Tamalpais State Park near the Alice Eastwood Campsite access road, and the chief southern access point Mt.
Out to the Mountain Home Inn, leads to a gateway access to the upper region of Muir Woods, Tamalpais State Park near the Alice Eastwood Campsite access road, and the chief southern access point Mt.
Cowboy Rock Trail (0.25 mile): part of the Homestead Valley Land Trust, the upper trail head is at Edgewood and Sequoia Valley Road intersection, athwart the street from where the Dipsea trail stairs from downtown end.
This path leads to the Homestead Trail and to the path/stairs down to Stolte Grove and the tip of Homestead Valley.
Pixie Trail (0.5 mile): part of the Homestead Valley Land Trust, this trail has a several trail heads.
Homestead Trail (1 mile): part of the Homestead Valley Land Trust, this longer winding trail traverses the slope of Homestead Valley itself.
It has a several other trail heads that leads up into Tamalpais State Park near the "four-corners" intersection, as well as down into the valley via (lower portion) Ridgeview Ave.
Dipsea Trail (7.1 miles): The most famous hike in Marin County is the Dipsea Trail, a challenging route beginning with three long, steep stairways dominant up from Old Mill Park and ending at Stinson Beach 7.1 miles (11.4 km) later.
The West Marin Stagecoach is a bus that runs from Stinson Beach back to Mill Valley, stopping approximately one mile from downtown. The Dipsea Trail is not well marked, so first timers should consider carrying a guidebook.
Public schools are managed by the Mill Valley School District.
There are five elementary schools and one middle school, Mill Valley Middle School, a four-time winner of the California Distinguished School Award. The enhance high school, Tamalpais High School, is part of the Tamalpais Union High School District, whose five campuses serve central and southern Marin County.
Greenwood School, a autonomous school positioned in downtown Mill Valley, serves preschool-8th undertaking students.
Mill Valley Public Library The Mill Valley Public Library.
The municipal library overlooks Old Mill Park and provides many picturesque reading locations, as well as no-charge computer and Internet access.
Recently they have begun offering Museum Passes to 94941 inhabitants for no-charge entry to Bay Area exhibitions. As part of the City of Mill Valley's decision to "go Green", the library has a Sustainability Collection with books and DVDs with knowledge about how to turn into more surroundingally friendly. The Mill Valley library first digitized its vast holdings under the long and innovative stewardship of the late Thelma Weber Percy, a town celebrity of great learning who was determined to see the Mill Valley Public Library come into the computer age, and maintain a healthy populace of library cats.
Her son, Kevin Percy, an historian and inventor of board games, still resides in Mill Valley, just minutes away from the library his mother all but brought into the 20th and 21st centuries, beneath its towering redwoods.
The Mill Valley Public Library is also home to the Lucretia Hanson Little History Room which has thousands of books, photographs, newspapers, pamphlets, artifacts, and oral histories on the history of California, Marin County, and Mill Valley. Mill Valley is the home of a several annual affairs, many of which attract nationwide and global followings: Mill Valley Film Festival Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival Mill Valley Shakespeare in Old Mill Park Amphitheater Mill Valley is known for being a village with a strong creative heritage.
A visitor to downtown Mill Valley will discover many art arcades, open-air coffee shops, and other hallmarks of a grow creative community.
In addition, the town has sponsored the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival for over fifty years and also the Mill Valley Film Festival, which is part of the California Film Institute, for over thirty years.
In addition, Mill Valley's Chamber of Commerce has sponsored the annual Gourmet Food and Wine Tasting in Lytton Square for many years.
Theater arts also have a huge following in Mill Valley.
In addition to supporting the small-town 142 Throckmorton Theatre, which hosts theater of all levels, Mill Valley is also home for the Marin Theatre Company, and the Mountain Play Association which hosts annual musical productions in the Sidney B.
Cushing Amphitheater positioned in Mill Valley's neighboring Mount Tamalpais State Park.
For a several years the Curtain Theatre Group has also been performing annual no-charge Shakespeare plays among the redwoods on the Old Mill Park Amphitheatre behind the Mill Valley Library.
Mill Valley has also been home to many artists, actors, authors, musicians, and TV personalities, and it is the setting for or is mentioned in many artworks.
Rock stars such as Michael Bloomfield, John and Mario Cipollina, Clarence Clemons, Sammy Hagar, Janis Joplin, Huey Lewis, Lee Michaels, Bonnie Raitt, Pete Sears, and Bob Weir have called Mill Valley home at some point.
Famed music executive/producer and film director George Daly worked originally with Janis Joplin and Huey Lewis, then both Mill Valley residents, along with Marin's Carlos Santana, and Mill Valley singer-songwriter Tim Hockenberry (of TV's America's Got Talent successes); Daly also co-directed and co-wrote the Mill Valley-focused movie The Invisible Peak, concerning the razing of the Mount Tamalpais West Peak amid the Cold War.
The multiple award-winning film, narrated by Peter Coyote, was screened and featured in multiple US film celebrations including the Mill Valley Film Festival.
Jerry Garcia who recorded music in a Mill Valley recording studio also once called Mill Valley home.
Author John Gray, who writes the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus books, is a long time Mill Valley resident.
Grammy Award-winning Jazz singer Jon Hendricks moved to Mill Valley in 1966 and owns a home in Homestead Valley.
Award-winning sports journalist Ann Killion was born and raised in Mill Valley.
Composer John Anthony Lennon was raised in Mill Valley.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono summered in Mill Valley in the early 1970s, having left some of his own graffiti on the wall of the residence "The Maya the Merrier".
Music producer-songwriter Scott Mathews' home is up on Mount Tamalpais, while his private recording studio and office is run out of his other Mill Valley home on the banks of Richardson Bay. Writer Jack Kerouac and beat poet Gary Snyder shared a Mill Valley cabin in 1955-56 around 370 Montford Ave.
The cabin's coincidental locale in Marin County and its adjoining locale to a meadow where horses grazed, combined with Snyder's expertise in Asian languages and cultures, inspired Snyder name the cabin "Marin-An" (Japanese translation: "Horse Grove Hermitage") It was amid this stay in Mill Valley that Kerouac's recent budding interest in Zen Buddhism was greatly period by Snyder's expertise in the subject.
Part of Kerouac's novel On the Road (1951) takes place in a "Mill City", which is a fictionalized reference to Mill Valley. Richard Laymon, the American horror author, set his novel The Lake primarily in Mill Valley.
American writer Cyra Mc - Fadden, while living in Mill Valley in the 1970s, wrote a column for the Pacific Sun journal entitled, The Serial, which satirized the trendy lifestyles of the well-to-do inhabitants of Marin County. She later turned her column ideas into a novel called The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County (1977), which concentrated on the fictional exploits of a Mill Valley couple, Kate and Harvey Holroyd, who never quite fit into the Marin "scene".
The song "Mill Valley", recorded in 1970 and released on the album Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point 4th Grade Class, reached #90 on the Billboard Hot 100. While the school is in the Mill Valley School District, it is not inside the town/city limits.
Hunnicutt, from the TV show M*A*S*H, called Mill Valley home.
The tv show Quantum Leap filmed episode 406 in Mill Valley, in 1991. Fictional character Doris Martin from The Doris Day Show called Mill Valley home.
In the syndicated version of the 1980 American sitcom, Too Close for Comfort, Henry Rush was owner and editor of the Marin Bugler journal in Mill Valley.
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