Editing Marin County, California (section)

==History==

=== Native American settlement ===
{{Main|Coast Miwok#History}}
Thousands of years ago, [[Coast Miwok|Coast Miwok people]] first populated the area today known as Marin County.

In 1770, Coast Miwok population ranged from 1,500 to 2,000,<ref>Kroeber, 1925:883.</ref><ref name="Cook, 1976:182">Cook, 1976:182.</ref> with about 600 village sites throughout the county.

In 1967, the [[Marin Museum of the American Indian]] was established, with exhibits focusing on Coast Miwok artifacts, crafts, and artwork.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Museum of the American Indian |url=https://www.marinindian.com/ |access-date=October 2, 2022 |website=marinindian |language=en}}</ref> As of 2021, Indigenous-led events include healing drumming, [[dogbane]] [[Rope|cordage]] demonstrations, trade feasts, and traditional dancing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Events {{!}} Museum of the American Indian |url=https://www.marinindian.com/events |access-date=October 2, 2022 |website=marinindian |language=en}}</ref>

=== History of Marin ===
During the [[Mexican–American War|Mexican-American war]], areas of Marin County were seized by Americans as part of the [[conquest of California]] (1846–1847). Marin County is one of the original 27 counties of California, created February 18, 1850, following adoption of the [[California Constitution]] of 1849 and just months before the state was admitted to the Union.<ref>[http://www.assembly.ca.gov/clerk/BILLSLEGISLATURE/documents/CA_Leg_Handbook_2006/Appendices_CaLegi06.pdf ''California's Legislature'', "APPENDIX M, Origin and Meaning of the Names of the Counties of California With County Seats and Dates Counties Were Created," p. 302. Spring 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201164333/http://www.assembly.ca.gov/clerk/BILLSLEGISLATURE/documents/CA_Leg_Handbook_2006/Appendices_CaLegi06.pdf |date=December 1, 2007 }}, Retrieved March 26, 2007</ref>

[[File:Saint Raphael Church San Rafael CA.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Mission San Rafael Arcángel]]]]
According to [[Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo|General Mariano Vallejo]], who headed an 1850 committee to name California's counties, the county was named for [[Chief Marin|"Marin,"]] great chief of the tribe Licatiut." Marin had been named "Huicmuse" until he was baptized as "Marino" at about age 20. Marin / Marino was born into the Huimen people, a [[Coast Miwok]] tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the San Rafael area. Vallejo believed that "Chief Marin" had waged several fierce battles against the Spanish. Marino definitely did reside at Mission Dolores (in modern San Francisco) much of the time from his 1801 baptism and marriage until 1817, frequently serving as a baptism witness and godfather; he may have escaped and been recaptured at some point during that time. Starting in 1817, he served as an [[alcalde]] (in effect, an overseer) at the San Rafael Mission, where he lived from 1817 off and on until his death. In 1821, Marino served as an expedition guide for the Spanish for a couple of years before escaping and hiding out for some months in the tiny [[Marin Islands]] (also named after him); his recapture resulted in a yearlong incarceration at the Presidio before his return to the Mission San Rafael area for about 15 years until his death in 1839.<ref>Goerke, Betty. 2007. ''Chief Marin, Leader, Rebel, and Legend: A History of Marin County's Namesake and his People''. Berkeley: Heyday Books. {{ISBN|978-1-59714-053-9}}</ref> In 2009, a plaque commemorating Chief Marin was placed in Mill Valley.

Another version of the origin of the county name is that the bay between San Pedro Point and San Quentin Point was named ''Bahía de Nuestra Señora del Rosario la Marinera'' in 1775, and that Marin is simply an abbreviation of this name.<ref>Gudde, Erwin G. (1949). ''California Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary'', p. 204. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; Paperback edition (2004). {{ISBN|0-520-24217-3}}.</ref>

[[Francis Drake]] and the crew of the ''[[Golden Hind]]'' was thought to have landed on the Marin coast in 1579 claiming the land as ''[[Nova Albion]]''. A bronze plaque inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands, fitting the description in Drake's own account, was discovered in 1933. This so-called ''[[Drake's Plate of Brass]]'' was revealed as a hoax in 2003.<ref>Chen, Allan, ''Drake's Plate: the end of the mystery?,'' Science Beat, Berkeley Lab, April 4, 2003</ref>
[[File:Tennessee-valley-trail-pano spring facing-east.jpg|alt=Looking east along the Tennessee Valley Trail, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.|left|thumb|500x500px|Looking east along the Tennessee Valley Trail, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area]]
In 1595, Sebastian Cermeno lost his ship, the ''San Agustin'', while exploring the Marin Coast. The Spanish explorer [[Sebastián Vizcaíno|Vizcaíno]] landed about twenty years after Drake in what is now called [[Drakes Bay]]. However the first Spanish settlement in Marin was not established until 1817 when [[Mission San Rafael Arcángel]] was founded partly in response to the Russian-built [[Fort Ross]] to the north in what is now [[Sonoma County, California|Sonoma County]].{{citation needed|date=January 2010}} 
[[Mission San Rafael Arcángel]] was founded in what is now downtown [[San Rafael, California|San Rafael]] as the 20th Spanish mission in the colonial [[Mexico|Mexican]] province of ''[[Alta California]]'' by four priests, Father Narciso Duran from [[Mission San José (California)|Mission San Jose]], Father Abella from [[Mission San Francisco de Asís]], Father Gil y Taboada and Father [[Mariano Payeras]], the President of the Missions, on December 14, 1817, four years before Mexico gained independence from Spain.{{citation needed|date=January 2010}}