Mill Valley
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| Foundation : | September 1, 1900 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | California |
| County : | Marin County |
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 54 ′ N , 122 ° 33 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 ) |
| Residents : | 13,903 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 1,139.6 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 12.4 km 2 (about 5 mi 2 ) of which 12.2 km 2 (about 5 mi 2 ) are land |
| Height : | 24 m |
| Postal code : | 94941 |
| Area code : | +1 415 |
| FIPS : | 06-47710 |
| GNIS ID : | 1659128 |
| Website : | www.cityofmillvalley.org |
| Mayor : | Stephanie Moulton-Peters |
Mill Valley is a city in Marin County in the US state of California with 13,903 inhabitants (as of 2010). The urban area of around 12.5 km² is located around 23 km north of San Francisco on the southeastern slopes of Mount Tamalpais and borders the marshes of Richardson Bay .
Mill Valley goes back to a sawmill built by John Reed in 1834 , the "Old Mill", which gave the town its name. The real history of the city began in 1889 when civil engineer Michael O'Shaughnessy developed a city map that still shapes Mill Valley today.
In particular, after the completion of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937, Mill Valley went through a major transformation that was marked by a dramatic rise in house and land prices. In May 2012, Smithsonian Magazine named Mill Valley "the fourth best small town in America" for its quality of life.
The place became internationally known through the Mill Valley Film Festival, which has been held annually since 1978 . The city is also known for the Dipsea Race , the oldest trail run in the United States that has run from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach on the Pacific coast since 1905 .
geography
location
Mill Valley is located on the southeastern slopes of Mount Tamalpais and extends southeast to Highway 101 and the northernmost tip of Richardson Bay , a flat and biodiverse arm of San Francisco Bay . The north-western, higher-lying part of the urban area is characterized by five canyons , the Tamalpais Valley, Homestead Valley, Cascade Canyon, Blithedale Canyon and Warner Canyon. The streams running through these canyons, including the Arroyo Corte Madera Del Presidio , flow into the tidal marshland of Richardson Bay.
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The census-designated places that share a school district and zip code with Mill Valley include Strawberry , east of the city , and Tamalpais-Homestead Valley and Muir Beach in the southwest. To the north, Mill Valley is bordered by Corte Madera ; to the east is Tiburon and southeast to Sausalito .
Mill Valley
Belvedere (8 km)
Corte Madera (3 km)
Kentfield (5 km)
Larkspur (4 km)
Muir Beach (6 km)
Ross (7 km)
Sausalito (7 km)
Strawberry (3 km)
Tamalpais-Homestead Valley (1.2 miles)
Tiburon (7 km)
climate
Mill Valley has - like other places in the coastal area of California - a Mediterranean climate with relatively humid winters and dry summers. The warmest month on average is July. The highest temperature ever recorded was recorded in 1972 and was 44 ° C. The coldest month on average is January. The lowest temperature ever recorded was recorded in 1990 and was −8 ° C. The highest amounts of precipitation fall in the months between November and March. Snow falls on Mount Tamalpais several times every decade, but it almost never reaches the city below. Mill Valley has different microclimates - areas in which there are different wind, temperature and rainfall conditions - which is due to the fact that parts of the urban area are spread over different canyons and hills.
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Mill Valley
Source: Temperature and Precipitation: The Weather Channel, Monthly Averages for Mill Valley, CA (94941)
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history
Arrival of the Europeans and construction of the sawmill
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Before the arrival of the white settlers, the Coast Miwok , a group of Miwok settled on the California coast , lived in the Mill Valley region. The Coast Miwok had their first contact with Europeans in 1579, when the English circumnavigator Francis Drake anchored on the California coast (probably in what is now known as Drakes Bay near Cape Point Reyes ). In 1776 the Spaniards built a first fort and a mission station in what is now San Francisco . In 1817 the Spaniards began building a mission station - Mission San Rafael Arcangel - in what is now San Rafael , northeast of Mill Valley. Seventeen years later, the Mexicans took control of Mission San Rafael and began giving the Miwok-populated areas to European settlers as ranchos for raising cattle.
Born in Dublin in 1805 , Irishman John Reed was the first landowner in what is now Marin County . In September 1834 the Mexican administration of Alta California allowed Reed to take possession of an area north of San Francisco Bay under the name Rancho Corte de Madera del Presidio . Reed's Rancho stretched northwest from the tip of Richardson Bay over what is now the urban area from Mill Valley to Larkspur Creek; in the east the rancho extended to the Tiburon Peninsula. One of the first buildings Reed erected on his rancho was the sawmill, which Mill Valley still gives its name to today. The exact time of construction is unknown, but is usually dated to 1834.
Timber and livestock farming in the second half of the 19th century
The beginning of the gold rush in 1848 brought larger numbers of settlers to California. Mill Valley had a sizeable population of coastal sequoias, and the growth of the city of San Francisco, fueled by the frequent fires, increased the demand for building materials. As a result, the trees in Mill Valley were almost completely cleared just a few years after the start of the gold rush. In this way, the urban area of today's Mill Valley and the surrounding lands were used primarily for cattle rearing and livestock farming from the mid-19th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Marin County , which became part of the United States with the incorporation of California in 1850 , became the main supplier of dairy products to the State of California in the second half of the 19th century.
Town planning by Michael O'Shaughnessy and land auction of 1890
In 1889 the Tamalpais Land & Water Company began developing the land in what is now the Mill Valley. She commissioned the civil engineer Michael O'Shaughnessy with the planning. Although O'Shaughnessy only worked for the Tamalpais Land & Water Company until his wedding in October 1890 , his work continues to shape Mill Valley to this day. He developed a city map that was based on 50 feet (around 15 meters) wide streets and - instead of the rigid grid plan often used in the United States - was based on the natural features of the landscape. A system of pedestrian paths, mostly designed as steps, enabled access to higher-lying parts of the city. The city center was laid out around a train station, which was connected to the existing rail network from 1889. In this way, Mill Valley was connected to San Francisco via the ferry to Sausalito and the railway line that continued from there.
In May 1890, the Tamalpais Land & Water Company held a large-scale auction that auctioned more than 200 parcels of land in and around Mill Valley. Advertisements in the San Francisco newspapers solicited potential bidders who preferred rural life:
“Fifty minutes from San Francisco; comfortable climatic conditions; perfect drainage; Trout streams; clear and excellent water in abundance; Water system now under construction; wonderful trips and perfect views of the mountain [this means Mount Tamalpais], bay, forest and city [this means San Francisco, which can be seen across the bay]. Forests of sequoias and other evergreen trees and shrubs; in fact, all the charms of country life in perfection, with all the advantages of city life, without the inconveniences of both. "
The auction held on May 31st sold over 200 parcels totaling 200 acres . Among the buyers were also property speculators who secured several parcels and resold them for a multiple of the price in the following months and years. Most of the city's first inhabitants were immigrants. A population register from 1894 shows that only 29 percent of men were born in Mill Valley, California. Almost the same proportion, 28 percent, came from Europe; the rest from other parts of America.
From 1890 to the fire of 1929
During the first decade after the 1890 land auction, Mill Valley became a magnet for summer vacationers from San Francisco. Due to the good transport connections between the city and San Francisco, more than 3,000 guests came to the city at times, far exceeding the number of city residents. Whole families camped in tents set up on the city's vacant lots. Among the popular destinations among the up to now for its coastal redwoods known Muir Woods and Mount Tamalpais . Both had been accessible by rail from the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway since 1896 .
In August 1900, the city gained independence from the Tamalpais Land & Water Company . From then on, the administration of Mill Valley was in the hands of its citizens. 276,632 acres of land became the city's self-government. Thirty-six years later, Frank Fiske Boswick, the first President of the Mill Valley Board of Trustees, summed up :
“We started with no money, no public facilities, no police or fire brigade, no health insurance and no local laws. But we had roads and sewers that were in bad shape and between 15 and 20 illegal saloons. "
Mill Valley saw a sharp increase in population after the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 . Numerous residents from the devastated San Francisco fled to Mill Valley and most of them settled there permanently. In this way, the population of Mill Valley skyrocketed to over 1,000.
The 1920s were a boom for Mill Valley, as it was for the rest of the United States. At the beginning of the decade, the city already had more than 2,500 inhabitants and real estate prices rose sharply. In July 1929, Mill Valley was hit by the largest natural disaster in its history to date - a fire on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais destroyed 117 houses and only a change in wind direction prevented the entire city from falling victim to the flames. As a result of the fire, but also due to the increasing availability of cars, the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway was discontinued in 1930.
The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge and its consequences for Mill Valley
In 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge was completed. This made Mill Valley accessible by car from San Francisco. This triggered a building boom in the city and the Locust Avenue Shopping Area was the first shopping district to open outside the city center. Rail service to Mill Valley ceased in 1940, and freight services ceased in the early 1950s. At the same time, the city's population topped 7,000 for the first time.
From World War II to today
Mill Valley has had a relatively constant population of 13,000 since the mid-1960s. The city's growth is mostly happening in its outskirts and attached areas such as Tamalpais-Homestead Valley , Muir Beach, and Strawberry .
In 1966 the new Mill Valley Public Library was completed and in 1976 a Public Safety Building for the local police and fire department was inaugurated. In 2001 a community center was built, which offers 5 acres of rooms for communal use as well as a swimming pool and sports fields.
politics
City administration
At the head of the municipality of Mill Valley, the mayor is (Mayor) , who is also a member of the City Council (City Council) is. The current term of office of the current mayor Stephanie Moulton-Peters began in 2017. Moulton-Peters had lived in Mill Valley for 25 years in 2019 and was mayor for the third time.
The Mill Valley City Council consists of five members, each elected for an eight-year term. Meetings of the city council are broadcast live via streaming media on the Internet and then made available online in an archive.
Election results in the last presidential election
Marin County's electorate - which includes Mill Valley - is heavily democratic . In the November 2016 presidential election , 77.5% of Mill Valley voters voted for Hillary Clinton and only 15.7% for Donald Trump . In addition, 69.7% of the electorate voted for Proposition 64 , which legalizes cannabis as an intoxicant in California for general consumption in addition to medical use.
In the 2012 presidential election , 74.1% of Marin County's voters voted for Barack Obama , while only 22.9% of voters voted for his opponent Mitt Romney . They were thus well above the 60.3% result achieved by Obama in the state of California.
Already in the presidential election of 2008 , San Francisco County and Alameda County alone had a higher percentage of votes for the Democrats than Marin County in all of California . Taken together, a greater percentage of voters in San Francisco, Alameda and Marin Counties voted for Barack Obama than in his home county of Cook County , Illinois. In Mill Valley itself, Obama received 78.0% of the vote in the 2008 presidential election and his Republican opponent John McCain only 20.4% .
A similar picture emerged in the previous presidential election - in 2004, 73.9% of Mill Valley voters had voted for John Kerry , while only 26.1% supported future President George W. Bush .
Attitude on fundamental issues
The fundamental political attitude of the population of Mill Valley and Marin County in general, which is strongly characterized by a liberal understanding of values, was shown, among other things, in their voting behavior on the controversial Proposition 8 in California . This proposed amendment to the California constitution provided for same-sex marriages to be repealed by a referendum and only marriages between couples of different sexes to be recognized. The proposal, which was accepted by a narrow majority of 52.24% of the vote in the November 2008 elections for the state of California, met with widespread opposition in Marin County. 75.1% of the county's voters were against the constitutional amendment - among counties in San Francisco alone, the front of opposition was broader at 75.2%. In Mill Valley, 85.5% of voters were against Proposition 8.
population
Population groups and ancestry
The United States Census 2010 , a census on April 1, 2010, determined 13,903 residents. The largest group of the population are the whites with a share of 88.8%. There are also 5.4% Asians , 3.6% mixed race and 0.8% African-American .
When asked about their ancestry, the respondents gave the following information about their ancestors: English (19.0%), Irish (16.6%), German (15.8%), Italian (7.2%), Russian (5th , 8%), Scottish (5.5%). Compared to other California cities, the proportion of residents born outside of the United States is a relatively low 9.9% (California as a whole: 26.2%); this corresponded to a number of 1,342 residents. Of these, 4.6% came from Europe.
Income, level of education and occupations
In 2009, the median income of a household was at 107,577 dollars (California Total 58,931 US dollars), the per capita income was 65,553 US dollars. In January 2011, the cost of living was well above the US average. For the Mill Valley cost-of-living index, a value of 156.9 was determined at the time (US average: 100).
Compared to other parts of the United States, Mill Valley residents are more educated than the average. 98% of residents 25 or older said they had a high school diploma. 71% said they had a bachelor's degree and just under 33% said they had a further academic degree .
The level of education of the population is also reflected in the professions. Among the male population, managers (9%) and top managers (9%) make up the largest occupational group with a total of 18%. In second place followed with 12% men who work in trade, the manufacturing industry and service professions. This is followed by lawyers (8%), computer specialists (6%) and doctors (5%). The picture is similar for women; the largest single group among them is also active in management with 8%. In all of these areas, the proportions among Mill Valley residents are well above the national average for California.
Religious affiliation
By far the largest religious community are the Catholics. Their share of the total population is 52%. This is followed by Protestants with 14% and Evangelical Christians with 7% . Other religious communities are represented with 27% (although no further details are given in the statistics for this last group).
Cityscape
The cityscape in the center of Mill Valley is characterized by smaller shops and restaurants that are geared towards the city's affluent public. Boutiques, wine shops, and art galleries line up with bakeries, flower shops, and antique shops. The former railway depot in the heart of the city has been converted into a bookstore with an attached café. In the wake of the rise in real estate prices, traditional businesses have been displaced. The record shop that has been located in the center for many years has now been replaced by a dog salon and a pastry shop.
Miller Avenue as seen from the corner of Miller and Bernard.
Depot Plaza in the heart of Mill Valley.
Smaller boutiques in downtown Mill Valley (Miller Avenue).
Movie theater in Mill Valley (Throckmorton Avenue).
Typical scenery of a house in Cascade Canyon, in the middle of coastal sequoia trees.
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Mill Valley has a number of parks and public green spaces. The Ernest Bloch Memorial Park established in the 1980s , named after the American composer Ernest Bloch , who composed his Rhapsody America in 1926 during a stay in Mill Valley, and the Bayfront Park , which adjoins the marshes of Richardson Bay, deserve special mention . The parks on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais - such as the Old Mill Park in Cascade Canyon - have a dense population of coastal redwoods.
Infrastructure
traffic
Highway 101 runs along the eastern city limits of Mill Valley and connects San Francisco in a north-south direction with parts of California further north. To the south, Mill Valley is connected to San Francisco by the Golden Gate Bridge and to the north the highway leads into the wine-growing region of Sonoma County . Ferry connections from the nearby towns of Tiburon (east of Mill Valley) and Sausalito (southeast, accessible via Highway 101) also connect the city with San Francisco.
Before Highway 101 crosses Richardson Bay coming from the south, there is a junction to California State Route 1 (often referred to as "Highway 1") in a westerly direction . This leads through Tamalpais-Homestead Valley to Muir Beach , before running north along the coast of the Pacific .
In the northeast of Mill Valley there is a connection to Richmond via the Richmond – San Rafael Bridge and then - further south - to Berkeley and Oakland .
Schools and city library
Mill Valley has five elementary schools and one middle school , Mill Valley Middle School , which has won the California Distinguished School Award four times to date . In addition, Tamalpais High School , a publicly funded high school founded in 1908 , is located in Mill Valley.
In addition, the city has the Mill Valley Public Library, a city library that overlooks the Old Mill Park with its stock of coastal redwood trees and thus provides numerous picturesque reading areas for users. The Lucretia Hanson Little History Room has a selected collection of works on local history and by local authors available to library users.
Sports, culture and sights
Sports
The most important, nationally known sporting event in Mill Valleys is the Dipsea Race . The 7.5 mile (12 km) race has been held intermittently since 1905 and is the oldest trail run in the United States. It leads from downtown Mill Valleys up to the slopes of Mount Tamalpais and then on through the Muir Woods National Monument and Mount Tamalpais State Park to Stinson Beach on the coast of the Pacific. One of the special features of the race is that it overcomes differences in altitude totaling 1219 meters and that the finish can be reached via various routes chosen by the runners from a strategic point of view. The field of participants is limited to 1500 runners and there are more than 3000 registrations each year. In order to guarantee equal opportunities for the runners, a handicap system is used in which participants - according to their age and gender - start the race at different starting times. The Dipsea Race has been held on the second Sunday in June every year since 1983.
Culture
In the summer months, the Mountain Play takes place in an amphitheater on Mount Tamalpais . The venue is located at an altitude of 610 meters and has been used for theater and musical performances since 1913. While the natural conditions were used for gaming operations in the first few years, the venue was expanded into a stone amphitheater in the 1930s. The Mountain Play Association, founded in 1914, is entrusted with the organization of Mountain Play .
Mill Valley has hosted the annual Mill Valley Film Festival since 1978 . The festival, initiated by Mark Fishkin and still held today, is an attraction for filmmakers and visitors and takes place every autumn. Prominent actors who have taken part in the festival in recent years have included international film stars such as Gael García Bernal and Helen Mirren , as well as Hollywood greats such as Brad Pitt , Forest Whitaker , Tim Robbins and Billy Bob Thornton . In 2004 around 40,000 tickets were sold as part of the 11-day festival.
The Bar Sweetwater Saloon , founded in the early 1970s, was until its interim closure in September 2007, a focal point for internationally known musicians such as Elvis Costello , Jerry Garcia , John Lee Hooker , Huey Lewis and Carlos Santana , who performed here. The blues rock band Hot Tuna recorded two live albums at the Sweetwater Saloon in the 1990s. In January 2012, the bar reopened under the name Sweetwater Music Hall on the ground floor of the local Masonic Temple.
Tourist destinations in and around Mill Valley
- Steps, Lanes and Paths: Mill Valley has an extensive network of stairs, narrow alleys and paths that access higher parts of the city. Blue markings on the streets indicate these routes as potential escape routes in the event of a fire. In 2010 the photographer Robert Skip Sandberg published an illustrated book on this path system under the title "Steps, Lanes and Paths of Mill Valley". A first section of the Dipsea Race leads - from the city center - up a 688-step staircase to the slopes of Mount Tamalpais.
- Mount Tamalpais: Mount Tamalpais is a 784 meter high mountain, the area of which is largely protected. Its impassable slopes are considered the place of origin for mountain bike sports.
- Muir Woods: One of the most popular excursion destinations near Mill Valley is the Muir Woods National Monument , which lies in a south-westerly direction from the city center and is a 2.2 km² protected area for the giant trees of the coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) . The coastal redwoods are the tallest tree specimens currently living on earth; the oldest specimen in the protected area is said to be over 1100 years old.
sons and daughters of the town
- Eve Arden (1908–1990), actress
- Mariel Hemingway (born 1961), actress
- Rainer Marten (* 1928), German philosopher
- Maury Sterling (born 1971), actor
literature
- Barry Spitz: Mill Valley. The Early Years. San Anselmo, CA 2007, ISBN 978-0-9620715-8-4 (Based on materials from the Lucretia Little History Room and supported by the Mill Valley Historical Society, Spitz describes the period from 1834 to 1929).
- Suki Hill: Mill Valley. Charleston SC et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-7385-5574-4 (illustrated book in the "Then and Now" series. Hill compares historical photos with views from the 20th and 21st centuries).
- Robert Skip Sandberg: Steps, Lanes and Paths of Mill Valley. Mill Valley CA 2010, ISBN 978-0-9830494-0-1 (Sandberg's self-published photo book depicts the numerous steps and paths that traverse Mill Valley).
Web links
- City of Mill Valley (Website of the City of Mill Valley)
- Mill Valley Historical Society to Known Residents
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mill Valley, CA - Mayor Stephanie Moulton-Peters on the City of Mill Valley web pages, last accessed August 31, 2019.
- ↑ Statistics of the United States Census 2010 , available online from the US Census Bureau - American Fact Finder , last accessed April 29, 2012.
- ^ Hill: Mill Valley. S. ix.
- ↑ The 20 Best Small Towns in America - Mill Valley , in: Smithsonian Magazine, May 2012, last accessed on May 4, 2012. See also Mill Valley's charms live up to national ranking , in: San Francisco Chronicle, May 2, 2012, last accessed on May 4, 2012.
- ↑ For the temperature information and the amount of precipitation cf. The Weather Channel, Monthly Averages for Mill Valley, CA (94941) , last accessed April 29, 2012.
- ↑ On this and the following cf. Spitz: The Early Years. P. 3.
- ^ Spitz: The Early Years. P. 5.
- ^ Spitz: The Early Years. P. 11.
- ↑ See Spitz: The Early Years. P. 20.
- ↑ See Spitz: The Early Years. P. 31.
- ↑ On this and the following cf. Spitz: The Early Years. Pp. 45-51.
- ^ "Fifty minutes from San Francisco; delightful climate; perfect drainage; trout streams; purest and best of water in great abundance; beautiful drives and perfect views of mountain, bay, forest and city. Forests of redwoods and other evergreen trees and shrubs; in fact, all the attractions of country life in perfection, plus all the advantages of city life, minus the discomforts of each ". From an advertisement in a contemporary San Francisco newspaper, quoted here from Spitz: The Early Years. P. 57.
- ^ Spitz: The Early Years. P. 58f.
- ^ Spitz: The Early Years. P. 60.
- ↑ See Spitz: The Early Years. Pp. 62-68.
- ^ Spitz: The Early Years. P. 65.
- ^ Spitz: The Early Years. P. 124.
- ↑ "We started with no money, no civic organization, no police or fire departments, no health protection and no local laws. But we did have streets and sewers in poor condition and about 15 or 20 blind pigs [illegal saloons] ". Quoted here from Spitz: The Early Years. P. 123f.
- ^ See Matthew Stafford, Mill Valley - An early health spa , Marin County Genealogy on the SFgenealogy website, last accessed May 5, 2012.
- ^ Spitz: The Early Years. P. 207.
- ↑ Doris Bassett (updated by Joan Murray): A brief history of Mill Valley ( Memento of the original of July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from the Mill Valley Public Library web pages, last accessed May 6, 2012.
- ↑ On fire and its consequences cf. Spitz: The Early Years. Pp. 220-224.
- ↑ On this and the following cf. the section “The Construction Boom Between the Two World Wars” in: Doris Bassett (updated by Joan Murray): A brief history of Mill Valley ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from the Mill Valley Public Library web pages, last accessed May 6, 2012.
- ↑ On this and the following cf. the section "Since World War II" in: Doris Bassett (updated by Joan Murray): A brief history of Mill Valley ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from the Mill Valley Public Library web pages, last accessed May 6, 2012.
- ↑ City of Mill Valley - Webcasting and Streaming Video Archive ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed May 7, 2012.
- ↑ a b County of Marin - Election Results , last accessed November 20, 2016.
- ↑ November 6, 2012 Presidental General Elections Results , Marin County, Registrar of Voters, last accessed December 14, 2012.
- ^ Election Results , via Huffington Post, last accessed December 14, 2012.
- ↑ On the results of the presidential elections of 2008 cf. 2008 Presidential Elections Results in Marin County, California , via City-Data.com, last accessed on May 7, 2012.
- ↑ See this and the following Mill Valley Political Information , via Homefacts.com, last accessed on May 7, 2012.
- ↑ See Proposition 8 results by county ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , provided by the San Francisco Chronicle, last accessed May 7, 2012.
- ↑ For this and for the following cf. US Census Bureau - American Fact Finder , last accessed April 29, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d e f See City-Data.com, Mill Valley, California , last accessed April 29, 2012.
- ↑ A list of the parks with links to Google Maps is available at City of Mill Valley - Parks ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on May 9, 2012.
- ↑ For more information, see City of Mill Valley - Ernest Bloch Memorial Park ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on May 9, 2012.
- ↑ For more information, see City of Mill Valley - Bayfront Park and Bothin Marsh Open Space Preserve ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on May 9, 2012.
- ^ California Department of Education - Distinguished School Awards , last accessed April 29, 2012.
- ↑ On the inventory cf. Lucretia Hanson Little History Room ( Memento of the original of July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Mill Valley Public Library website, last accessed April 29, 2012.
- ↑ On the early days of the Dipsea Race cf. Spitz: The Early Years. Pp. 197-201.
- ↑ See Spitz: The Early Years. P. 204f.
- ↑ Delfin Vigil: Mill Valley Film Festival looks to be fit for royalty , in: San Francisco Chronicle of September 13, 2006, last accessed on May 6, 2012.
- ↑ Carolyne Zinko: Mill Valley Film Festival skips prices, keeps focus on celluloid , in: San Francisco Chronicle of October 9, 2004, last accessed on May 6, 2012.
- ↑ Joe Selvin: Longtime club Sweetwater set to close Sept. 1 , in: San Francisco Chronicle of August 9, 2007, last accessed on May 9, 2012.
