MY ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK IN MARIN COUNTY

WHEN I WORKED WITH THE STATE PARKS I HAD INVENTORIED SOME PREHISTORIC AND HISTORIC SITES THROUGHOUT MT. TAMALPAIS STATE PARK AND SAMUEL P. TAYLOR PARK.  I WAS GIVEN SOME SITES TO RECORD AT MT. TAM.  ONE WAS A PORTUGUESE DAIRY RANCH NEAR MUIR WOODS.  LUCKILY ONE OF THE DISTANT DESCENDANTS WAS STILL THERE WHO I INTERVIEWED ABOUT THE HISTORIC RANCH.  I MAPPED THE HOUSE  AND BARN SITE AND RECORDED INFORMATION ABOUT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FAMILY BUSINESS.

AT SAMUEL P TAYLOR  I SPENT MONTHS SUPERVISING AND INTERVIEWING THE ENTIRE 3000 ACRE PARK.  THERE WERE 3 OF US TO DO THIS SURVEY.  I INVENTORIED SEVERAL FOLKS - PARK RANGER SAND AN ARCHAEOLOGIST  WHO WORKED IN SACRAMENTO TO LEARN MORE ABOUT  THE HISTORICAL ASPECTS HERE.   THERE WAS ALSO A MANUSCRIPT THAT INCLUDED  THE ORAL HISTORY INCLUDED THE ORAL HISTORY OF THE LUMBERING AND THE BARNS AND THE USE OF THE AREA AS A SAN FRANCISCO RESORT.  I PRODUCED A LARGE REPORT RECORDING MANY HISTORIC SITES FROM THE 1800'S.  I INTERVIEWED THE WIFE OF A FAMOUS POET, KEN REXROTH.  WE FOUND HIS CABIN HIS OLD CABIN FROM INCLUDED SOME OF THE POETS POEMS.  HE WAS A POET WHO LIKED TO KEEP TO HIMSELF AND WENT TO VARIOUS NATIONAL PARKS.  AT THIS PARK I LEARNED ABOUT MANY REMANTS FROM HISTORICAL AND RECREATIONAL SITES BY INTERVIEWING A MAINTENANCE WORKER.