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Richardson ultimately lost his vast holdings, and the bulk of Rancho del Sausalito was sold in 1868 to the Sausalito Land and Ferry Company. They laid out streets and subdivided the central waterfront and hills into spectacular view lots, then purchased a small streamer, the Princess, to bring in prospective buyers from San Francisco.
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Two hundred years ago the area was inhabited by Coast Miwokpeople, including a village called Liwanelowa in the area of Sausalito. The European settlers who supplanted them documented very little about the people and their pre-Spanish-colonization lives, and archaeologists continue to work today to learn more about their culture of that era. The To...
Although the Golden Spikethat signaled the connection of the railroad lines from the East Coast to California, routine rail service did not spread across the state until the mid to late 1880’s. The ability to travel here easily from the East Coast created sharp population growth up and down the west coast, and many major cities trace their roots as...
In 1941, during World War II a marshy area north of Sausalito was hastily filled in and turned into the massive Marinship Shipyards, producing merchant ships to carry supplies around the world. This large area today represents the Marinship neighborhood of Sausalito, which are largely filled with offices, parks (including the sites of the Bay Model...
50 years ago residents would talk about the “great years” between 1945 and 1960, after the massive shipyard closed down and before travelers to San Francisco added Sausalito to their list of must-see local places. For that one generation of Sausalito history, the now-old-timers would say, “the local residents had the place to themselves again, like...
In the late 1980’s the anchor-out floating home community faced a crisis. The long-time residents had always maintained a very tolerant, mutually supportive (and often self-policing) attitude in the area. New, less-committed arrivals and increased crowding, however, had combined with the rapid aging of the World War II era floating housing stock to...
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Apr 29, 2020 · When prohibition ended, the Walhalla once again became a legitimate bar, now with inexpensive rooms that were rented out to artists. In 1947, it played a cameo role in Orson Wells’ Lady from Shanghai. Then, in 1948, it was purchased by one Sally Stanford of San Francisco.
277597, 2411834. Website. www .ci .sausalito .ca .us. Sausalito ( Spanish for "small willow grove") is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) southeast of Marin City, 8 miles (13 km) south-southeast of San Rafael, [8] and about 4 miles (6 km) north of San Francisco from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Mar 14, 2018 · He was born in Ireland in 1828 and came to San Francisco around Cape Horn in 1849. Hired as a boatman by Charles Harrison in 1851, he remained in that capacity until his retirement in 1896. He built one of the first homes in New Town, where he lived with his wife and fourteen children until his death in 1900.
Jan 26, 2021 · Tagged: Sally Stanford , Sausalito , Sausalito Historical Society , The Lady of the House , Valhalla Inn. Sally Stanford may have hoped to escape her past as a San Francisco brothel madam from the late 1920s to the late 1940s when she became Sausalito’s mayor.
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Apr 23, 2024 · With the arrival of the North Pacific Coast Railroad in 1871, Sausalito grew as a seaport and transportation junction. After the completion of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937, it developed as a bedroom community of San Francisco, with tourism and services as its economic mainstays. The city attracted many artists and is home to several art ...
