History for Marin County began shortly after California adopted its state constitution in 1849. Marin County is counted among the twenty seven original counties of the State of California even before it was taken on as part of the Union. With fifty eight counties in California of today, Marin County is situated in the northern part of the state and immediately across the bay from San Francisco.
San Rafael is where Marin County’s local government resides, its most recent population count just exceeded 260,000 and the County’s largest employer is the county government itself.
Marin County has been well endowed by nature as well as by society at large. On the one hand, nature has bestowed Marin County with unsurpassed beauty reflected in sites such as the Muir Woods National Monument, the Marin Headlands, Stinson Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore and, its highest peak which claims to be the birthplace for mountain biking, Mount Tamalpais.
On the other hand, Marin County is known for its well-to-do residents whose annual income is the highest per capita with nearly $50,000 and the third national highest mean personal annual income with approximately $90,000.
No one knows for sure how Marin County acquired its name […]

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