2018

Thaddeus and Ludmilla Welch were famous landscape artists.  In 1896, they built a snug cottage on Webb Creek near the bottom of Steep Ravine. They painted scenes of Mount Tamalpais,…

Tony Brabo was born in Mill Valley on February 14, 1912.  Both of his parents died in 1924, and Tony became a ward of the state. In 1926 when he…

Mary Bettencourt was born on November 15, 1910 in a farmhouse that her father had built in 1905 on a 3-acre parcel in Homestead Valley.  Both of Mary’s parents had…

Up on Throckmorton Ridge is Muir Woods Park, an unincorporated community in Mill Valley 94941.  It borders Mt. Tamalpais State Park, Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley and Homestead Valley.…

  In July 1911, the telephone exchange was moved from a Throckmorton store to the west half of the newly constructed Bank of Mill Valley (today, the Bank of America…

John Finn’s estate, Wildwood, was on Miller Ave.   He owned the J.H. Finn Metal Works in San Francisco. In 1912 and again in 1915 he had his son Dick spend…