At Lyford’s Stone Tower with Angel Island in background.
With a tour on Main Street.
Inside the Railroad and Ferry Depot Museum, with its extraordinary scale model (20 years in the making!) of the Tiburon rail yard as it was in 1909 and its restoration of the stationmaster’s quarters as they were in the 1930s.
Main Street c. 1919, before the third of three great fires that decimated Tiburon’s Main Street.
Nike missiles on Angel Island.
San Francisco’s skyline from Shoreline Park.
Tom Smith, the last full-blooded Coast Miwok person.
Al Capone figures twice in Tiburon’s history.
Peter Donahue, who brought his railroad to Tiburon.
San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge from Shoreline Park.
The Ukiah, the largest double-ended ferry in the world, built in Tiburon in 1890! Rebuilt as The Eureka, it is the largest existing wooden ship in the world.
Hilarita Reed Lyford and Dr. Benjamin Lyford.
Fascinating portrait—we’ll tell you why!
With a tour on Ark Row.
Lyford’s Stone Tower c. 1910. The entrance to Lyford’s Hygeia, envisioned as the healthiest residential community in the world.
Coast Miwok people at a celebratory ritual.
Gaspar de Portolá, sent the first expedition to enter the San Francisco Bay by ship.
Arks (houseboats) in Belvedere Cove c. 1900.
Tiburon railyard c. 1899
Main Street after the 1906 fire.
What is now Ark Row, as it was c. 1900.