Volunteers Needed - Training Offered

Article Source: County of San Mateo CA

Docent Training: June 3, 2017
For San Mateo County Historical Association

Volunteer Opportunities at: San Mateo County History Museum
2200 Broadway
Redwood City

Sanchez Adobe
1000 Linda Mar Blvd.
Pacifica

Woodside Store
3300 Tripp Rd.
Woodside


The San Mateo County Historical Association is searching for enthusiastic and dedicated individuals to help San Mateo County history come alive for the students, residents and visitors of San Mateo County. Interested in education and working with school children? Consider leading or assisting our school programs. We provide engaging, hands-on, educational programs for 20,000 annual San Mateo County and Bay Area elementary students and their chaperones. Are you a people person? Then interpreting our historic sites may be right for you. Engage with visitors of all ages from around the world as you share our unique and colorful history with our 65,000 annual visitors.

Opportunities are available at the San Mateo County History Museum in Redwood City, the Woodside Store in Woodside and the Sanchez Adobe in Pacifica. Join us for our upcoming FREE Docent Orientations on Saturday, June 3. From 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. an orientation will be held at our Woodside Store historic site, located at 3300 Tripp Road in Woodside. There you will learn more about the Historical Association and learn about the opportunities available at the Store. From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. an orientation will be held at the San Mateo County History Museum, located at 2200 Broadway in Redwood City. There you will learn about opportunities available at the museum and the Sanchez Adobe.

San Mateo County History Museum

The San Mateo County History Museum occupies the 1910 County Courthouse in downtown Redwood City, California. The 40,000 square foot building, on the National Register of Historic Places, features many striking architectural details, including the largest stained glass dome on the West Coast, Corinthian columns and a magnificent mosaic floor.

Inside the impressive building, the History Museum captures the story of the San Francisco Peninsula from the original Native American inhabitants of yesterday to the Silicon Valley innovators of today. Through interactive exhibits, informative videos, colorful murals and unique artifacts, the county’s history comes to life.

Sanchez Adobe

Francisco Sanchez, owner of Rancho San Pedro and one-time mayor of San Francisco, constructed the Sanchez Adobe home between 1842 and 1846.


Woodside Store

Built in 1854, the Woodside Store operated as a country store, post office and community center until the 1909 death of its owner, Dr. R.O. Tripp.


For more information, or in order to sign up, call 650-299-0104, ext. 231 or email education@historysmc.org.


Sarah Phelps
Development Associate
San Mateo County Historical Association
2200 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063

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