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Mill Valley is located on the western and northern shores of [[Richardson Bay]], fed by [[Pickleweed Inlet]] and [[Arroyo Corte Madera del Presidio]] which traverse through Mill Valley. Beyond the flat coastal area, it occupies narrow wooded [[canyon]]s, mostly of second-growth [[Coast redwood|redwoods]], on the eastern slopes of [[Mount Tamalpais]].
Mill Valley is located on the western and northern shores of [[Richardson Bay]], fed by [[Pickleweed Inlet]] and [[Arroyo Corte Madera del Presidio]] which traverse through Mill Valley. Beyond the flat coastal area, it occupies narrow wooded [[canyon]]s, mostly of second-growth [[Coast redwood|redwoods]], on the eastern slopes of [[Mount Tamalpais]].


==Early history==
==History==
The first peoples known to inhabit the Peninsula and Mill Valley area, the [[Coast Miwok]], arrived approximately 8,000 years ago<ref>Evens, Jules G. 1993. The Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula. Point Reyes, California: Point Reyes National Seashore Association.</ref>. The territory of the Coast Miwok included all of present [[Marin County]], stretched as far north as [[Bodega Bay]], and as far east as [[Sonoma]]. More than 600 village sites have been uncovered and identified and over 100 have been discovered on the [[Point Reyes Peninsula]]<ref>Thalman, Sylvia Barker. 1993. The Coast Miwok Indians of the Point Reyes Peninsula. Point Reyes, California: Point Reyes National Seashore Association.</ref>.
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At least 500 years ago, the region that now encompasses the town of Mill Valley was inhabited by the [[Coast Miwok]]s. In 1834, the [[Mexico|Mexican]] government gained control of the area. Miwok ancestral lands were divided and doled out to willing pioneer ranchers. The huge tracts of land, called "ranchos" by the Mexican settlers, soon covered the area. The Miwoks that had not died or fled were employed on these ranches. John Reed was one of the first of these new settlers, and it was Reed's saw mill that provided the lumber and employment that served as Mill Valley's first impetus for growth. Soon after, with the [[Gold Rush]] of 1848, Mill Valley saw unprecedented growth. Shrewd entrepreneurs such as Samuel Throckmorton (for whom a prominent Mill Valley street is named) began purchasing and selling land to the droves of prospectors that arrived from abroad.

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In 1834, the [[Mexico|Mexican]] government gained control of the area. Miwok ancestral lands were divided and doled out to willing pioneer ranchers. The huge tracts of land, called "ranchos" by the Mexican settlers, soon covered the area. The Miwoks that had not died or fled were employed on these ranches. John Reed was one of the first of these new settlers, and it was Reed's saw mill that provided the lumber and employment that served as Mill Valley's first impetus for growth. Soon after, with the [[Gold Rush]] of 1848, Mill Valley saw unprecedented growth. Shrewd entrepreneurs such as Samuel Throckmorton (for whom a prominent Mill Valley street is named) began purchasing and selling land to the droves of prospectors that arrived from abroad.


[[Image:MVCityHall.JPG|thumb|left|250px|City Hall]]
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For the former settlement of this name, see Mill Valley, Calaveras County, California.
Mill Valley, California
City
Throckmorton Ave in downtown Mill Valley
Throckmorton Ave in downtown Mill Valley
Location in Marin County and the state of California
Location in Marin County and the state of California
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyMarin
Government
 • MayorAndrew Berman[1]
 • SenateMark Leno (D)
 • AssemblyJared Huffman (D)
 • CongressLynn Woolsey (D)
 • County BoardDistrict 3
Charles McGlashan
Area
 • Total4.8 sq mi (12 km2)
 • Land4.7 sq mi (12 km2)
 • Water0.1 sq mi (0.3 km2)
Elevation
[2]
79 ft (24 m)
Population
 (2000)
 • Total13,600
 • Density2,833.3/sq mi (1,093.9/km2)
Time zoneUTC-8 (PST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP codes
94941-94942
Area code415
FIPS code06-47710
GNIS feature ID1659128
Websitehttp://www.cityofmillvalley.org/

Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States located about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.5 km² (4.8 mi²). 12.2 km² (4.7 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it (2.28%) is water.

Mill Valley is located on the western and northern shores of Richardson Bay, fed by Pickleweed Inlet and Arroyo Corte Madera del Presidio which traverse through Mill Valley. Beyond the flat coastal area, it occupies narrow wooded canyons, mostly of second-growth redwoods, on the eastern slopes of Mount Tamalpais.

History

The first peoples known to inhabit the Peninsula and Mill Valley area, the Coast Miwok, arrived approximately 8,000 years ago[3]. The territory of the Coast Miwok included all of present Marin County, stretched as far north as Bodega Bay, and as far east as Sonoma. More than 600 village sites have been uncovered and identified and over 100 have been discovered on the Point Reyes Peninsula[4].

In 1834, the Mexican government gained control of the area. Miwok ancestral lands were divided and doled out to willing pioneer ranchers. The huge tracts of land, called "ranchos" by the Mexican settlers, soon covered the area. The Miwoks that had not died or fled were employed on these ranches. John Reed was one of the first of these new settlers, and it was Reed's saw mill that provided the lumber and employment that served as Mill Valley's first impetus for growth. Soon after, with the Gold Rush of 1848, Mill Valley saw unprecedented growth. Shrewd entrepreneurs such as Samuel Throckmorton (for whom a prominent Mill Valley street is named) began purchasing and selling land to the droves of prospectors that arrived from abroad.

City Hall

Mill Valley's growth, and the simultaneous growth of its neighboring towns, ousted the native Miwok population once and for all. In 1852, a census counted 218 full-blooded Miwoks remaining. By 1888, there were only six. Today, there are none who claim even fifty-percent ancestral heritage among the Miwok.

The city is named for a saw mill established by John Reed in the 19th century, the site of which is now Old Mill Park. When the wooded area had been completely logged over, it was divided into small and irregular building lots, which were sold at auction. Many of the vacation homes built at that time were converted to residences during the Great Depression of the 1930s, especially after the Golden Gate Bridge eased access to San Francisco. It is now an affluent residential suburb, much of which is reached by narrow, winding roads created in the early 20th century that often incorporated the old logging roads carved out in the previous century.

From 1896 to 1930, the Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway ran service from Mill Valley to the summit of Mt Tamalpais. The 8.25-mile (13.28 km) long line had 22 trestles and 281 curves earning it the nickname "The Crookedest Railroad in the World".[5][6]

The Mill Valley post office opened in 1890, changed its name to Eastland in 1892, and changed its name back to Mill Valley in 1904.[7] The name Eastland honored Tamalpais Land and Water Company president Joseph G. Eastland.[7]

Climate

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Old Railroad Depot

Mill Valley has a mild Mediterranean climate. Daytime highs average 56 °F (13 °C) in winter, and 84 °F (29 °C) in summer. Winter lows rarely drop below freezing and summer highs rarely peak 90 °F (32 °C). Annual rainfall averages around 45 inches (1.1 m) per year, with more than 90% of rain falling in November through March (peaking in January) with summer months typically being very dry.[8] Wind speeds average lower than national averages in winter months and higher in summer, and often become quite gusty in the canyon regions of town. California coastal fog often affects Mill Valley, making relative humidity highly variable. The wetter winter months tend to make for a more consistent relative humidity around 70-90% (slightly higher than US averages). During the summer months, however, while the morning fog often keeps morning humidity normal, in a typical 70-80% range, by afternoon after the fog burns off, the humidity regularly plummets to around 30% as one would expect in this dry seasonal climate. [9]

Mill Valley is also affected by microclimate conditions in the several boxed canyons with steep north-facing slopes and dense forests which span the southern and western city limits, which, along with the coastal fog, all conspire to make many of the dense forested regions of Mill Valley noticeably cooler and moister, on average, than other regions of town. This microclimate is what makes for the favorable ecology required by the Coastal Redwood forests which still cover much of the town and surrounding area, and have played such a pivotal role throughout the history of Mill Valley.

Demographics

As of the censusTemplate:GR of 2000, there were 13,600 people, 6,147 households, and 3,417 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,112.5/km² (2,883.1/mi²). There were 6,286 housing units at an average density of 514.2/km² (1,332.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 91.43% White, 0.99% African American, 0.25% Native American, 4.14% Asian, 0.21% Pacific Islander, 0.65% from other races, and 2.32% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.47% of the population.

There were 6,147 households out of which 27.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.2% were married couples living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 44.4% were non-families. 34.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.20 and the average family size was 2.85.

In the city the population was spread out with 21.2% under the age of 18, 2.9% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 32.5% from 45 to 64, and 15.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females there were 86.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.5 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $90,794, and the median income for a family was $119,669. Males had a median income of $94,800 versus $52,088 for females. The per capita income for the city was $64,179. About 2.7% of families and 4.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.6% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over. The median single-family home price in the city was $1,500,000 as of January 2005.[citation needed]

Strawberry is an unincorporated Census-designated Place to the east of the City of Mill Valley. Other CDPs with Mill Valley mailing addresses and within the Mill Valley School District include Tamalpais-Homestead Valley and Muir Beach. Smaller unincorporated areas include Alto and Almonte.

Education

Public schools are managed by the Mill Valley School District. There are five elementary schools and one middle school, Mill Valley Middle School, a four-time winner of the California Distinguished School Award.[10] The public high school, Tamalpais High School, is part of the Tamalpais Union High School District, whose five campuses serve central and southern Marin County. Marin Horizon School is an independent school serving students in grades PK-8. Founded in 1977, the school enrolls approximately 285 students.

City recreational parks

Mill Valley maintains many recreational parks[11] which often contain playgrounds and other designated areas specifically designed for playing various sports. Dogs are required to be on leashes in all but one of these parks, which is specifically designated a dog park to allow the option of off-leash exercise. Mill Valley also has a prodigious "steps, lanes, and paths program" that provides improved pedestrian access between many of the winding and twisting residential roads that cover the hillsides.

For those who prefer to enjoy nature from the comfort of a chair, the city's public library[12] is nestled in a serene and scenic location at the edge of Old Mill Park[13] where visitors may relax indoors near the wood-burning fireplace and view the redwood forest through the library's multi-storied windows, or from the outside deck which overlooks the park and Old Mill Creek.

Natural features

Mill Valley is surrounded by hundreds of acres of state, federal, and county park lands. In addition, there are many municipally maintained open-space reserves, parks, and coastal habitats which, when taken together, ensconce the city of Mill Valley in a natural wilderness. This close and constant proximity to nature has left generations of Mill Valley residents with a strong sense of conservancy toward much of this natural environment. It has been this unique cultural attitude, along with the many natural public spaces preserved within (see below) and around its borders, which combine to form one of the main cultural cornerstones that has always defined Mill Valley.

Aquatic resources

Mill Valley has a number of scenic and natural features including its location on Richardson Bay and the associated inlet Strawberry Lagoon. These waters hold significant habitat for fishes, marine mammals and other biota. Notable areas of public access to experience these aquatic preserves can be found at:

Wildland resources

Mill Valley and the Homestead Valley Land Trust maintains many minimally disturbed wildland areas and preserves which are open to the public from sunrise to dusk everyday. Several nature trails allow access as well as providing gateway access to neighboring state and federal park lands, and the Mt. Tamalpais Watershed[14] wildland on the broad eastern face of Mt. Tamalpais that overlooks Mill Valley. These are undeveloped natural areas and contain many species of wild animals, including some large predators like the coyote, the bobcat, and the cougar. As in all wildland areas, observe daytime access hours, keep dogs on leashes, and keep younger children from wandering about unattended. One may also want to familiarize themselves with how to live and recreate among cougars,coyotes, and bobcats prior to visiting these wildland areas.

Nature trails
Blithedale Canyon
  • Tenderfoot Trail (1.5 miles) -- Lower trail head is on Cascade Drive between Cascade Falls park and the lower trail head of the Zigzag trail. The upper trail head is at Edgewood Ave., near Mountain Home Inn. This upper trail head provides access to the Edgewood trail, and also provides gateway access to the upper region of Muir Woods, Tamalpais State Park near the Alice Eastwood Campsite access road, and the main southern access point Mt. Tamalpais Watershed (near the Throckmorton Ridge Fire Station).
  • Zigzag Trail (1/2 mile, steep climb) -- This is a very steep trail which has an upper trail head near the Throckmorton Ridge Fire Station and the Mountain Home Inn with gateway access to the upper region of Muir Woods, Tamalpais State Park near the Alice Eastwood Campsite access road, and the main southern access point Mt. Tamalpais Watershed (near the Throckmorton Ridge Fire Station). The lower trail head is near the western end of Cascade Drive, west of Cascade Falls Park and the lower Tenderfoot Trail head.
  • Cypress Trail (1 mile) -- runs between the end of Cypress Ave. and the middle of the Tenderfoot Trail. Cypress Avenue leads to Edgewood Blvd. Going down Edgewood leads to the top of Dipsea trail stairs and Cowboy Rock Trail head, and uphill on Edgewood lead to the Edgewood Trail.
  • Edgewood Trail (1/2 mile) -- runs between the two parts of Edgewood Ave. and provides access to the upper Tenderfoot trail head or, if one follows Edgewood Ave. out to the Mountain Home Inn, leads to a gateway access to the upper region of Muir Woods, Tamalpais State Park near the Alice Eastwood Campsite access road, and the main southern access point Mt. Tamalpais Watershed (near the Throckmorton Ridge Fire Station)
  • Cowboy Rock Trail (1/4 mile) -- part of the Homestead Valley Land Trust, the upper trail head is at Edgewood and Sequoia Valley Road intersection, across the street from where the Dipsea trail stairs from downtown end. This path leads to the Homestead Trail and to the path/stairs down to Stolte Grove and the western tip of Homestead Valley.
  • Pixie Trail (1/2 mile) -- part of the Homestead Valley Land Trust, this trail has several trail heads. On the upper end the trail head is at Marion Ave, (upper portion) Ridgewood Ave., and Edgewood Ave. intersect. The Pixie Trail also has a mid-access point, where the Pixie Trail becomes paved and developed. The street runs down hill to Stolte Grove. The trail continues on and connects to any of three other trail heads. The first head is at the five way intersection of Molino Ave, Edgewood Ave, Cape Ct, and Mirabel Ave. The second head leads to the end of Seymour lane which is a short road off of Edgewood Ave. Crossing Edgewood, the path continues down a set of stairs to Ethel Ave and the Una Way staircase down to Miller Ave. The third and final head ends at Janes Street, down the way from Molino Avenue Park.
  • Homestead Trail (1 mile) -- part of the Homestead Valley Land trust, this longer winding trail traverses the western slope of Homestead Valley itself. It is not currently well delineated or maintained in parts. It has several other trail heads that leads up into Tamalpais State Park near the "four-corners" intersection, as well as down into the valley via (lower portion) Ridgeview Ave. and Ferndale Ave.
  • Dipsea Trail (7.1 miles) The most famous hike in Marin County is the Dipsea Trail, a challenging route beginning with three long, steep stairways leading up from Old Mill Park and ending at Stinson Beach 7.1 miles later. The annual Dipsea Race is in June, although the trail can be run or hiked any time. The West Marin Stagecoach is a bus that runs from Stinson Beach back to Mill Valley, stopping approximately one mile from downtown.[1] The Dipsea Trail is not well marked, so first timers should consider carrying a guidebook.

Suburban gentrification

Mount Carmel Catholic Church

The combination of Mill Valley's idyllic location nestled beneath Mount Tamalpais coupled with its ease of access to nearby San Francisco has made it a popular home for many high-income commuters. Over the last 20 years, following a trend that is endemic throughout the Bay Area, home prices have climbed in Mill Valley (the median price for a single-family home is in excess of $1.5 million as of 2005), which has had the effect of pushing out some earlier residents who can no longer afford to live in the area. This trend has also transformed Mill Valley's commercial activity, e.g. Village Music (see below) was replaced in 2008 by more luxury-oriented commercial establishments: a cupcake shop and a dog salon.

In July 2005, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Mill Valley tenth on its list of the 100 Best Places to Live in the United States.[15] In 2007, MSN and Forbes magazine ranked Mill Valley seventy-third on its "Most expensive zip codes in America" list.[16]

While Mill Valley has retained elements of its earlier artistic culture through galleries, festivals, and performances, its stock of affordable housing has diminished[17], forcing some residents to leave the area. This trend has also affected some of the city's well-known cultural centers like Village Music[18] and the Sweetwater Saloon. As of April 2007, only one affordable housing project was underway: an initiative to raze and rebuild an abandoned motel called the Fireside[19].

Annual events

Mill Valley is the home of several annual events, many of which attract national and international followings:

Arts and crafts in Mill Valley

Mill Valley is known for being an "artsy" little town. Driving or walking downtown Mill Valley will discover many art galleries, coffee shops, and other hallmarks of a typical art town. In addition, the town has sponsored the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival for over fifty years and also the Mill Valley Film Festival, which is part of the California Film Institute, for over thirty years. In addition, Mill Valley's Chamber of Commerce has sponsored the annual Gourmet Food and Wine Tasting in Lytton Square for many years.

Theater arts also have a huge following in Mill Valley. In addition to supporting the local 142 Throckmorton Theatre, which hosts theater of all levels, Mill Valley is also home for the Marin Theatre Company, as well as the Mountain Play Association which hosts annual musical productions in the Cushing Memorial Amphitheater located in Mill Valley's neighboring Mount Tamalpais State Park. For several years the Curtain Theatre Group has also been performing annual free Shakespeare plays among the redwoods on the Old Mill Park Amphitheatre behind the Mill Valley Library.

Music, novels, television and movies

Mill Valley has also been home to many musicians, authors, actors, and TV personalities. Jerry Garcia — who recorded music in a Mill Valley recording studio — also once called Mill Valley home. John Lennon and Yoko Ono summered in a Mill Valley home on Lovell Ave. near the library in the early 70's, having left some of his own graffiti on the wall of the residence "The Maya the Merrier". Other rock stars such as Michael Bloomfield, Huey Lewis, Bob Weir, Sammy Hagar, Bonnie Raitt, Pete Sears, Clarence Clemons, John and Mario Cipollina, and Janis Joplin have also called this small town home. The composer John Anthony Lennon was raised in Mill Valley, as was the video journalist Sarah Austin. Authors such as Wright Morris and Jack London have also lived here, as does Joyce Maynard. Actors Peter Coyote, Dana Carvey, Jill Eikenberry, Kathleen Quinlan, Michael Tucker, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, have also called Mill Valley home and it was the place of birth for actors Eve Arden and Mariel Hemingway. Celebrity chef, Tyler Florence and former women's basketball star Jennifer Azzi also call Mill Valley home. Former naval aviator Dieter Dengler built a home on Mount Tamalpais near the Mountain Home Inn and lived there until his death in 2001; parts of the biographical documentary about him, Little Dieter Needs to Fly were filmed there. Author John Gray who writes the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus books is a long time Mill Valley resident. Preventive medicine physician, John Travis, founded the first wellness center in the US at 42 Miller Avenue in 1975.

In fiction, character B.J. Hunnicutt from the TV show M*A*S*H called Mill Valley home, and fictional character Charley Furuseth in Jack London's 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf, apparently had a summer cottage here. In the Star Trek universe, it is home to the 602 Club. It is also the setting for resident author Jack Finney's 1954 novel The Body Snatchers, although the 1956 film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and subsequent movie versions of the book have been set elsewhere. Fictional character Doris Martin from the TV show The Doris Day Show (1968-1973 TV series) called Mill Valley home as well. In the syndicated version of Too Close For Comfort, Henry and Muriel Rush got their jobs at the Marin Bugler newspaper in Mill Valley.

Writer Jack Kerouac and beat poet Gary Snyder shared a Mill Valley cabin in 1955-56[25] around 370 Montford Ave. in Homestead Valley. The cabin's coincidental location in Marin County and it's adjacent location to a meadow where horses grazed, combined with Snyder's expertise in Asian languages and cultures, lead to Snyder naming the cabin "Marin-An", which is Japanese for "Horse Grove Hermitage"[26]. It was during this stay in Mill Valley that Kerouac's recent budding interest in Zen Buddhism was greatly expanded by Snyder's expertise in the subject. Kerouac's 1958 novel, The Dharma Bums, was consequently composed while living here and contains many semi-fictionalized accounts of the lives of Kerouac and Snyder while living at Marin-An [27].

American writer Cyra McFadden, while living in Mill Valley in the 1970's, wrote a column for the Pacific Sun newspaper entitled, "The Serial", which satirized the trendy lifestyles of the affluent residents of Marin County[28]. In 1977 she turned her column ideas into a novel called The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County which focused on the fictional exploits of a Mill Valley couple, Kate and Harvey Holroyd, who never quite fit in to the Marin 'Scene.' The highly successful book was later made into a 1980 comedy called Serial (1980 film), starring Tuesday Weld and Martin Mull.

The song "Mill Valley", recorded in 1970 and released on the album "Miss Abrams and the Strawberry Point 4th Grade Class"[29], became a nationwide hit. While the school is in the Mill Valley School District, it is not within the city limits. (Watch and listen to a clip of |"Mill Valley" filmed by Francis Ford Coppola.)

Richard Laymon, the American horror author, set his novel The Lake primarily in Mill Valley. Other Laymon novels are also either set in or mention Mill Valley.

The Tamalpais High School Marching Band appeared in the 1969 Woody Allen film Take The Money and Run. In the 1973 George Lucas film American Graffiti, the 'sock hop' dance scenes were filmed in the high school's boys gymnasium.

The television show Quantum Leap filmed episode 406 in Mill Valley in 1991.

Mill Valley in the news

1974: Jenny Fulle First Girl to Play Little League

Little League Baseball specifically banned girls from participating in 1951 and they had successfully defended, in court, this gender discrimination many times. What was different when Jenny Fulle of Mill Valley was first banned from playing Little League in 1973? In 1972, President Nixon had signed Title IX into law, which prohibited gender discrimination in any area of education. Since Little League depended upon public school facilities for their practices and official games, Title IX made their gender discrimination policy illegal. Jenny's story, first written about in the Mill Valley Record, quickly went national and attracted the attention of NOW and the ACLU. In 1974 she won a superior court ruling, under Title IX, which allowed her to become the first girl in the nation to play Little League. In 1975, the year after Jenny Fulle played her first season, Little League permanently changed their national policy allowing girls to fully participate. [30] [31]

2002: John Walker Lindh and the Mill Valley Islamic Center

The most recent event that attracted national attention to the city of Mill Valley was the case of John Walker Lindh, who lived in neighboring San Anselmo, and converted to Islam at the Mill Valley Islamic Center[32]. Following his trial, former President George H. W. Bush is reported to have called Lindh a "misguided Marin county hot-tubber", which amused most Marin residents and angered some. [33]

2008: sewage spills

On January 31, 2008, Mill Valley's sewage treatment plant spilled 2.45 million gallons of sewage into San Francisco Bay.[34] This marked the second such spill in Mill Valley within a week (the previous one spilled 2.7 million gallons), and the most recent of several that occurred in Marin County in early 2008.[35]

Mill Valley's treatment plant attributed the spills to "human error". [35] Two investigations are still attempting to uncover why over 5 million gallons of sewage, most of which was raw and untreated, is now in Mill Valley's watershed. The investigations are being carried out by the Regional Water Board and the EPA.[36] The spills caused distress in Mill Valley's administrative government, which remains outspoken about "dedicating itself to the protection of air quality, waste reduction, water and energy conservation, and the protection of wildlife and habitat" in Mill Valley.[37]

Points of interest

Mill Valley Air Force Station

Village Music: A legendary music store that against the protest of thousands of citizens-was shut down in late 2007. http://www.villagemusic.com/

References

  1. ^ "City Council". Retrieved 2008-03-19.
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mill Valley, California
  3. ^ Evens, Jules G. 1993. The Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula. Point Reyes, California: Point Reyes National Seashore Association.
  4. ^ Thalman, Sylvia Barker. 1993. The Coast Miwok Indians of the Point Reyes Peninsula. Point Reyes, California: Point Reyes National Seashore Association.
  5. ^ http://hunza1.tripod.com/tamalpais/
  6. ^ http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/lb/main/crm/photoalbums/railroadalbum/railroadmain.html
  7. ^ a b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 664. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
  8. ^ http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/94941?from=tenDay_bottomnav_business
  9. ^ http://www.city-data.com/city/Mill-Valley-California.html See "Average climate in Mill Valley, California" graphs.
  10. ^ California School Recognition Program distinguished school honorees, accessed January 26, 2008
  11. ^ http://www.cityofmillvalley.org/Index.aspx?page=416
  12. ^ http://www.millvalleylibrary.org/
  13. ^ http://justplaygrounds.com/play/millValley/oldMill/index.htm
  14. ^ http://www.marinwater.org/controller?action=menuclick&id=242
  15. ^ http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/
  16. ^ http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/forbes/P62020.asp/
  17. ^ http://www.marinij.com/fastsearchresults/ci_4355908
  18. ^ http://www.marinij.com/fastsearchresults/ci_4910289
  19. ^ http://www.marinij.com/fastsearchresults//ci_3981677
  20. ^ http://www.dipsea.org
  21. ^ http://www.mountainplay.org
  22. ^ http://www.mvff.com
  23. ^ http://www.mvfaf.org
  24. ^ http://curtaintheatre.org/
  25. ^ http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf1489n5dm&chunk.id=bioghist-1.8.3&brand=oac
  26. ^ http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf1489n5dm&chunk.id=bioghist-1.8.3&brand=oac
  27. ^ http://www.millvalleyhistoricalsociety.org/history-of-homestead-valley-2002.html
  28. ^ http://www.pacificsun.com/morguepdf/2007/2007_06_29.pac.section1.pdf p.9
  29. ^ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004SGY5
  30. ^ http://licensetothrive.org/leader/detail/id/45
  31. ^ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/A+hero%27s+journey:+Jenny+Fulle+has+led+a+charmed+life+of+her+own...-a0159593365 A Hero's Journey: Jenny Fulle...
  32. ^ http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,187564,00.html
  33. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,756219,00.html
  34. ^ http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_8182853
  35. ^ a b http://www.marinij.com/ci_8364890?source=most_viewed
  36. ^ http://www.cityofmillvalley.org/index.aspx?recordid=144&page=34
  37. ^ http://www.cityofmillvalley.org/Index.aspx?page=675
  38. ^ http://www.nps.gov/muwo/
  39. ^ http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/471/files/mounttamalpais.pdf
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