2013

In 1936, Edna Foster, a community activist, purchased the ramshackle three-story Holtum Building at 15 Throckmorton and vowed to make improvements. She also bought the lot behind it on Sunnyside…

The Tamalpais Union High School District originally encompassed only the Sausalito and Mill Valley Elementary School Districts. Students in the following elementary school districts attended San Rafael High School: San…

By spring 1890, the owners of Rancho Sausalito, Tamalpais Land & Water Co., were ready to start development of the Eastland, Millwood and Vicinity subdivision (part of Mill Valley).  A…

Prohibition, a national ban on alcohol, was in place from 1919 to 1933. A cantankerous little Irishman named Jimmy Quinn ran his saloon at 2 Corte Madera for 45 years…

  Mill Valley’s name comes from its most famous manmade landmark, a mill on the creek in Cascade Canyon built by John Reed in about 1835. It was the first…

In 1902, a group of Mill Valley women met to discuss the idea of forming a local women’s civic club. 35 women signed up as founders of the Outdoor Art…