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Marin County, California
Marin County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Named: The origin of its name is not clear. One story says that the
county was named for Chief Marin, of the Licatiut tribe of Indians who inhabited
that section and waged fierce battle against the early Spanish military
explorers. The other version is that the bay between San Pedro and San Quentin
points was named Bahia de Nuestra Senora del Rosario la Marinera by Ayala in
1775, and it is quite possible that Marin is simply an abbreviation of this
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Neighboring Counties:
- North: Sonoma County
- East: San Francisco Bay; Contra Costa County
- South: San Francisco city & county
- West: North Pacific Ocean
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we’ve given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the “characteristic features of
our country!”
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn’t the only reason to explore counties’ role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today’s counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990’s political slogan “Think globally, act locally.” |
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Penn Foster High School
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