Editing Ross, California (section)

==History==
After the [[Mexican Revolution]] of 1821, the "land grant" system of parceling out land gave rise to what is now known as Marin County. Ross was originally part of an {{convert|8877|acre|ha|abbr=on|adj=on}} Mexican land grant to Juan B.R. Cooper in 1840 known as Ranch Punta de Quentin Canada de San Anselmo.

In 1857, James Ross (1812–1862) bought [[Rancho Punta de Quentin]] for $50,000. Ross, a [[Scottish Americans|Scot]] who had arrived in San Francisco from [[Australia]] in 1848 and made his fortune in the wholesale liquor business, set up a trading post called "Ross Landing".<ref>[http://www.moya-rhs.org/history.htm A Ross History Timeline] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100309222303/http://www.moya-rhs.org/history.htm |date=March 9, 2010 }}</ref> He built his home on Redwood Drive and moved there with his wife and three children. When James Ross died in 1862, his wife, Annie Ross, was forced to sell a portion of her husband's larger land holdings to pay each of their daughters $10,000. The remaining {{convert|297|acre|ha|abbr=on}} comprises the present-day Town of Ross.

The first [[post office]] opened in 1887,<ref name=CGN /> and Ross [[municipal corporation|incorporated]] in 1908.<ref name=CGN />