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Walking Tour
Take yourself on a self-guided walking tour of the village of Tomales on your next visit!
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Tomales Regional History Center is run entirely by volunteers and we rely on the support of our community. Won’t you step up?
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Our exhibits and events open to the public. Welcome in!
Hours
April—November: Saturday & Sunday 1:00 PM — 4:00 PM
December—March: Saturday 1:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Or by appointment: Contact us
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Tomales Regional History Center (map)
26701 Highway One
Tomales, CA 94971
For our mission statement, please see the About page.
“[H]istory can untie our minds, our bodies, our disposition to move — to engage life rather than contemplating it as an outsider. It can do this by widening our view to include the silent voices of the past, so that we look beyond the silence of the present.”
The Shoreline Region’s consciousness of its past reaches, in many ways, back to three men — all of whom wrote on the subject with feeling, enthusiasm, and knowledge. Each focused, with a bit of overlap, on his “home” section. Here is a young Bray Dickinson, reading on the porch of his family home in Tomales, probably well before he began to research the town’s history. (photo by Ella Jorgensen)