Monday, June 24, 2013

MY ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK IN MARIN COUNTY

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

AT SAMUEL P. TAYLOR I SPENT MONTHS SUPERVISING THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILYTHE THE MEMBERSOF THE ENTIRE 3000 ACRE PARK.  THERE WERE ONLY THREE OF US TO DO THIS SURVEY.  I INTERVIEWED SEVERAL FOLKS - PARK RANGERS AND AN ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO WORKED IN SACRAMENTOO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS HISTORICAL SITE HERE.  THE HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT THAT INCLUDED THAT INCLUDED THE ARCDHAEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE LUMBERING AND THE BARNS  AND USE OF AREAS AS A SANFRANCISCO RESORT.

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