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    Tiburon and Belvedere
    Tiburon and Belvedere
    Tiburon and Belvedere
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    Tiburon and Belvedere

    By Branwell Fanning

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    Tiburon and Belvedere share the same spectacular peninsula jutting into San Francisco Bay from Marin County, California. With water on three sides, fabulous views everywhere, and San Francisco a 30-minute ferry ride away, these two communities have become highly desirable places to live. Historian Branwell Fanning, twice mayor of Tiburon, using his own collection and the archives of the Belvedere/Tiburon Landmarks Society, describes the area s transition from dairy ranches, railroad yards, military bases, and cod fisheries, to charming villages filled with homeowners.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateDec 6, 2010
    ISBN9781439640609
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      Tiburon and Belvedere - Branwell Fanning

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      INTRODUCTION

      Belvedere and Tiburon were once part of the 8,000-acre Rancho Corte Madera del Presidio, a land grant by the Mexican government to John Thomas Reed in 1834. Reed cleared the beautiful peninsula, which juts 4 miles into the San Francisco Bay, of the giant stands of timber, built a sawmill, and began a dairy that was noted for the high quality of its produce. The majority of the rest of present-day Marin County was parceled out to other settlers.

      Spanish was still spoken by these ranchers, who held great fiestas and lived the life of wealthy landowners. Soon scattered about the Tiburon peninsula were a variety of military installations, codfish canneries, and, after 1884, a large railroad yard. Saturday night brought a mix of soldiers, sailors, cannery workers, dairymen, and the people who ran the railroad to the bars and taverns of Main Street. Tiburon had become a blue-collar town.

      By mid-1800s, the passing of the first generation of the Reed family caused the break up of the great ranch. The western and northern parts became Mill Valley, Corte Madera, and Larkspur. Son John Joseph Reed inherited the main ranch properties on the peninsula, then known as the Big Reed Ranch, west of Trestle Glen, plus the Little Reed Ranch east of Trestle Glen. Daughter Hilarita Reed received the entire Strawberry Peninsula, plus a thousand acres of the east end of the Tiburon Peninsula. She married Dr. Benjamin Lyford, a Civil War surgeon, and they settled on her ranch in Strawberry. He began the first real development on the Tiburon Peninsula, Lyford’s Hygeia, near the railroad terminal, but it was not a great success in his lifetime. Many of the other settlers in other parts of Marin who had received land grants either lost their grants to speculation or to the lawyers who handled the land claims. The Reeds held on to the bulk of their Tiburon land for several more generations. The lawyers who successfully defended the Reed claims received Belvedere and Corinthian Islands as payment. Angel Island was never part of the Reed land grant.

      The Belvedere Land Company was formed in 1890, and development began on Belvedere and Corinthian Islands, planned from the very beginning to be a community of luxurious second homes for well-to-do San Franciscans. Social life centered on the yacht club, the elegant Belvedere Hotel, the Belvedere Golf and Country Club, and the arks (houseboats that spent the summers in Belvedere Cove). The earthquake and fire of 1906 spurred growth in Belvedere, as San Franciscans who lost their city residences relocated to their summer homes and made them

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