PORTUGUESE DAIRY RANCHERS OF SOUTHERN MARIN
Speaker: Lissa McKee, M.A.,
Historian and Environmental Planner
First they were milk hands, then renters, than dairy owners. California was said to be their pot of gold. Come and be intrigued as Lissa McKee travels back to a time when Portuguese dairy farmers were some of the largest land holders in Marin County.
Before Pine, Maple, Laurel and other streets of the first residential subdivision, when Tamalpais Valley was called Coyote Hollow small dairy farms dotted the landscape as far south as Rodeo Lagoon, north to Bolinas and beyond, and out the Tiburon peninsula. Nearly every single one was owned by immigrants from the Azores, small rocky islands in the middle of the Atlantic. Used to a hard scrabble life, they worked from... Want to learn more? See you on November 17, 2010
