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This is a photograph of the original 1865 #juneteenth order. Happy Juneteenth. • Posted @withregram • @usnatarchives National Archives News staff writer Mike Davis was working on an article about Juneteenth when he wondered if the agency ha
The grandson of Paul Revere, Joseph Warren Revere, attacked, captured, then pressed Coast Miwok men into labor in the 1840s on the lands of what later became the San Geronimo Golf Course - all as revenge for an alleged horse theft. Swipe for the exce
Non-Caucasians were barred from buying and renting homes in the San Geronimo Valley from 1912 into the late 1960s. • The Lagunitas Development Company was responsible for subdividing and selling much of the #sangeronimovalley, and they employed
[Pinch outwards to zoom in]: This handmade 1853 ink and watercolor map of the #sangeronimovalley is one of the earliest Valley maps. It is an updated recreation of an earlier 1839 map which may have been the area’s first. Early hand drawn maps
In 1916, a pool at Shafter [Shafter’s] was a popular summer swimming spot just upstream from what many know as the “Inkwells” today, and just upstream from the spot where San Geronimo Creek and Lagunitas Creek join. Long time reside
This remarkable photograph was taken in #lagunitas in 1874 - it gives us a rare glimpse of two of the hundreds of Chinese immigrants (at left) who labored in the #sangeronimovalley and across #marincounty from 1872-1875 to build the North Pacific Coa
We made postcard reprints of this beautiful 1913 photo of the Woodacre arch for the @sgvccenter’s Valley Art Day. The arch was built entirely of redwood branches and trunks cut in the construction of Redwood Drive in Woodacre. The historical so
Historians think the #sangeronimovalley was named for a Coast Miwok Native American man named Jumle, who was baptized ‘Geronimo’ by Spanish colonists in 1808. Who was Jumle? • Mission records tell one side of the story. He first appe
A brief history of potato farming in the #sangeronimovalley. - Potatoes have a history in the Valley that dates back more than 170 years, and that reflects how times and societal values have changed and evolved. - 1. Spring in the Valley hills in 20

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