https://www.tomaleshistory.com/home daily 1.0 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1536348188641-9YBC1UF7G5QZ6APY1BMF/porthole-railroad-exhibitview.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/900a35f1-bf8a-4f2d-bb6b-893da35b8f4d/TRHC_SQLogo_Final.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/9e53a554-3d29-46d7-a128-d4e64e2d72ef/SurveySQ-socialmedia.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367406998-HWN3FH86DG2V97WEZCQY/creamery-25x11.jpg Home - New Sonoma Creamery, Tomales (1924) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367418714-ISV9ZHEPPMMCOV1E6OEX/hand-colored-marshall-postcard-w-train-depot-25x11.jpg Home - Hand-colored postcard of Marshall railroad depot (c. 1905) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367433903-JYPTI4LYA31GHJXQ5IE8/train-at-marconi-25x11.jpg Home - Marconi flag stop, Marshall (1915) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367423820-RGAYDD18A4N7E7AYA171/running-fence-end-at-ocean-25x11.jpg Home - Running Fence, art installation by Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Valley Ford (1976) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367434633-CX3O6DE2ISC7AJOP7Y58/smith-bros-one-0008-25x11.jpg Home - Smith Bros. No. 1, Bodega Bay’s Smith Bros. Fishery (early 20th century) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367416543-5UYIO7IF46L8U0PLXUUA/people-on-rock-dillons-beach-postcard-25x11.jpg Home - “Real Photo Postcard” of people at Dillon’s Beach (early 20th century) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367410013-GEX0I1XFT067HHHQZVCQ/3-women-on-maine-st-0331-25x11.jpg Home - Three young women on Maine Street (Highway One), Tomales (1917) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/b1f203f9-2ffa-45ab-81c5-5c8c6b64330b/walking-tour-new-2025.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1542433405022-FMAOEZY0L8CUP44URUGY/trhc-three-cheerleaders.jpg Home https://www.tomaleshistory.com/home-page-slides daily 0.75 2018-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367406998-HWN3FH86DG2V97WEZCQY/creamery-25x11.jpg Home Page Slides - New Sonoma Creamery, Tomales (1924) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367406998-HWN3FH86DG2V97WEZCQY/creamery-25x11.jpg Home Page Slides - New Sonoma Creamery, Tomales (1924) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367418714-ISV9ZHEPPMMCOV1E6OEX/hand-colored-marshall-postcard-w-train-depot-25x11.jpg Home Page Slides - Hand-colored postcard of Marshall railroad depot (c. 1905) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367433903-JYPTI4LYA31GHJXQ5IE8/train-at-marconi-25x11.jpg Home Page Slides - Marconi flag stop, Marshall (1915) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367423820-RGAYDD18A4N7E7AYA171/running-fence-end-at-ocean-25x11.jpg Home Page Slides - Running Fence, art installation by Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Valley Ford (1976) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367434633-CX3O6DE2ISC7AJOP7Y58/smith-bros-one-0008-25x11.jpg Home Page Slides - Smith Bros. No. 1, Bodega Bay’s Smith Bros. Fishery (early 20th century) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367416543-5UYIO7IF46L8U0PLXUUA/people-on-rock-dillons-beach-postcard-25x11.jpg Home Page Slides - “Real Photo Postcard” of people at Dillon’s Beach (early 20th century) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534367410013-GEX0I1XFT067HHHQZVCQ/3-women-on-maine-st-0331-25x11.jpg Home Page Slides - Three young women on Maine Street (Highway One), Tomales (1917) https://www.tomaleshistory.com/exhibits-permanent daily 0.75 2024-02-29 https://www.tomaleshistory.com/exhibits-permanent/the-coast-miwok monthly 0.5 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543287993189-KBSNTX96RX7XA7NCYLEK/trhc-miwok-artifacts-case.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Coast Miwok - Miwok Artifacts in Case Artifacts, including strings of clamshell and olivella shell beads, used as currency, from the collection on view in our exhibit “Before the Pioneers: the Coast Miwoks.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543350512028-84VGAKXMBFESASCPFG4R/trhc-miwok-trade-beads-in-case.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Coast Miwok - Miwok Trade Beads Trade beads, usually glass or ceramic, were obtained by native peoples as gifts from — or through trade with — European and Russian explorers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543288010243-6673S28FMK7UE1UX5CIM/trhc-wmsmithsr-0020.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Coast Miwok - Wm. Smith, Sr. William (Bill) Smith was the patriarch of the modern Smith family, and founder of the Bodega Bay fishing industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543288011227-KEM3FQ4X7FYSXU8WSLI9/trhc-packingseine0000.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Coast Miwok - Packing Seine Packing seine, large fishing nets with sinkers that hang vertically in the water, used to enclose and catch fish. Photo courtesy Young Ernest Smith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543287983464-5ARAQ8HHSN39U0GWZOWH/trhc-6bros5sisters-0004.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Coast Miwok - Six Brothers Five Sisters Two of the Smith brothers’ boats were named Six Brothers and Five Sisters, in honor of the eleven children of Bill and Rosalie Charles Smith. Photo courtesy Young Ernest Smith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543288321117-GZIMMBWGLA8OKMS9B6WC/smith-bros-one-0008.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Coast Miwok - Smith Bros. No. 1 One of a pair of 50-foot diesel trawlers — christened Smith Bros. No. 1 and Smith Bros. No. 2 — that the Bodega Bay-based Smith Brothers Fishery commissioned from Sausalito ship builders in the early 20th century. Theirs was the first commercial fishing operation in Sonoma County. (l‒r) Eddy Smith, Bill Orr, Harold Ames, Bill Smith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543288001619-BEE6CVRSM6XRW695B7AX/trhc-smithbros-old+warehouse0012.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Coast Miwok - Smith Brothers Old Warehouse Smith Brothers Fishery’s warehouse, circa 1915. Brothers back row l-r Angelo, Young Ernest, Stephen Smith; at right Bill Smith, Jr. (two men in front unknown). Courtesy Young Ernest Smith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543287993696-VFKWMZNYZWR2J4MSJNR5/trhc-marshallschool0013.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Coast Miwok - Marshall School The Marshall School was attended by many Coast Miwok children who lived at nearby Fisherman’s Village in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/exhibits-permanent/the-pioneers monthly 0.5 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548811218361-0S0DIXTID9NKM58NTFFP/johnkeyes.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Pioneers - John Keys John Keys left his native Ireland when he was seventeen. He spent time in California’s gold mines, and farmed potatoes near Bodega before he came, in 1850, to what would become Tomales. Here he developed the port, soon named Keys Embarcadero, that would encourage a village to grow around it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548811872432-C2IJSP3Z42647P3WHLVR/maryfrisbiejohnston.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Pioneers - Mary Frisbie Johnston Twenty-one year old Mary Hunt Frisbie arrived with her husband at the Tomales port in 1863 after a sail, around the Horn, from New York to San Francisco. She spent a long and productive life in the area, buried two husbands, and died in her eighties. Circa 1920 photo by Mrs. Johnston’s daughter, Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548813120920-550R2ZXC683X3EHWQ722/woodworthhousetomales-crop.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Pioneers - Woodworth House The Woodworth family at their circa early-1860s home near Tomales. Dairyman Abijah Woodworth and his wife Abigail were both themselves children of very early California pioneers. Abigail had a large part in the design of this Gothic-inspired house, the entire upper floor of which was a ballroom. The house was eventually destroyed by fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534465581988-CXFWP0IIV83HJXESPXTW/george-dillon.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Pioneers - George Dillon George Dillon, original owner of the beach that bears his name. When Dillon sold some of his Dillon’s Beach ranch to a developer, his stipulation was that the property would always remain known as Dillon’s Beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534465553171-X0727OLIRBXZT9QRRAI5/dillon-and-ables.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Pioneers - Dillon and Ables Pioneer rancher George Dillon left, and Thomas J. Ables, who first organized Marin County’s school system, were early Tomales Township neighbors and friends. Photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534465615849-2I4GU1RFA4P7L2B4PHDM/guldager-house-windmill.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Pioneers - Guldager House with Windmill Hans and Caroline Guldager in the front garden of their Dillon’s Beach Road, Tomales home, with its originally crenellated verandah roof. Circa 1920 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534465479549-G0EYQB0OCSCEC63D0TIK/hans-caroline-at-beach.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Pioneers - Barefoot Hans and Caroline at Beach Prussian immigrant Hans Guldager and his wife, Caroline (holding her husband’s boots and long stockings!) enjoy a walk on Dillon’s Beach. We have photographer Ella Jorgensen to thank for this rare (circa 1915) image of a barefoot pioneer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534465667116-DFTD1YQLZ2H1PVEHYS7P/j-jorgensen-famly-and-house.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Pioneers - Jorgen Jensen Family and House Pioneers Jorgen Jensen and his wife Sillie, pose with son and daughter, Walter and Carrie, in front of one of the first Upper Town, Tomales houses. This was originally the home of another pioneer, blacksmith Reed Dutton. Circa 1915 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/exhibits-permanent/the-story-of-tomales monthly 0.5 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363724765-6QN0AEKGNHKS4TXH6IDR/trhc-warehouse-at-estuary.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Story of Tomales - Warehouse on Estuary View of Tomales north, from a hill south of town. Large flat roof left is a warehouse — probably built near the end of the port’s life, when goods needed to be transferred to lighters because of the increasingly shallow water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363726927-ZMNVCOO8ICPX8FMPS6PY/trhc-tomales-early-view-w-children.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Story of Tomales - Tomales Intersection Early View A morning image of Tomales’s main intersection, view SW. Two story building right is today’s Diekmann’s General Store; Church of the Assumption is in distance left. Circa 1878. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363701390-AZFINDONTWCQNZWP8NDK/trhc-1st-tomales-creamery.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Story of Tomales - First Tomales Creamery Creamery built at Lower Town, Tomales in 1875 — an era of development and economic growth in the village. Photo by Ella Jorgensen circa early 20th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543365262120-XS575ETMRAOUPQLYHRCD/train-at-db-rd-trestle-tomales.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Story of Tomales - Train at Dillon Beach Road Trestle North West Pacific train #37 crossing trestle near Dillon’s Beach Road, Tomales. 1929 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363716739-Z2ALM2Y0CHQZI04JJIRO/trhc-rr-map.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Story of Tomales - Northwestern Pacific Railroad Map of Tomales This is a 1922 revision of a 1912 railroad map. Non-railroad buildings are per 1911 Sanborn Fire Insurance map of Tomales https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363730648-WMBZFAYG7P9O92U6XNPE/dr-winn-in-front-of-house-thumb.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Story of Tomales - Dr. Winn in Front of House Tomales physician Dr. Winn practiced here in the early 20th century. He is posed here in front of his house and office, still extant today on the east side of Maine Street/Highway One. Photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363718207-J9OAMAP24OTBOIB0STHR/trhc-N-up-Hwy-One.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Story of Tomales - North Up Highway One After Fire View north up Highway One across intersection with Dillon’s Beach Road. Most of these buildings are extant and recognizable today. Photo by Ella Jorgensen, early 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543366159653-QLTGMM40AIAQDKF4LWJN/trhc-98-1st-two-cars.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Story of Tomales - 98 First Street with Cars A sure sign of changing methods of transportation, the first automobile repair shop in Tomales was opened by Swiss immigrant Isadore Cerini in 1915. The Dillon’s Beach Road building, with its original, decorative zinc ridge-crest still intact, is extant today. Circa 1920 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/exhibits-permanent/agriculture monthly 0.5 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444158308-4FKQYEJ1AUUQFVE4C0PL/trhc-luke-fallon-ranch.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Agriculture - Luke Fallon Ranch The Luke Fallon Ranch, two miles north of Tomales. Photo circa 1870. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444142922-BTF0PGLJ6GOVEH6NGTK4/trhc-e-ranch-creamery.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Agriculture - E Ranch Creamery Interior of creamery on Claussen Eutter maker John Paulino left with Henry Claussen, circa 1880s. Photo courtesy of the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444167094-19173MNQSQ01KEG4MROD/trhc-respini-milkers.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Agriculture - Respini Milkers Milking in the field at the Respini Ranch near Marshall, circa 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444165365-9PJ1Y4JX1N3ZOHXCOZP7/trhc-threshing-crew.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Agriculture - Threshing Crew A threshing crew near Bloomfield, with sacks full of the grain (probably wheat, oats, or barley) separated from its stalks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444143567-VID4B06FHXI9C9G0JEQ7/trhc-bailing-hay.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Agriculture - Bailing Hay A hay bailing crew near Tomales poses with a 500-pound, five-wire hay press, circa 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444155612-8BAR8FBKJV4UYQ1V94X0/trhc-potato-planter-13.42.27-1500.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Agriculture - Potato Planter This 1920 Iron Age potato planter, on view in the Agriculture History exhibit, seeded many local harvests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444173686-PB0GRN9P9NU15OJBG16Z/trhc-THS-ag-club-shop.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Agriculture - Tomales High School Agriculture Club Tomales High School’s Agriculture Club predated the school’s FFA chapter. This image is of the agriculture club’s workshop was shot in 1923. By 1929 Tomales High School had a chapter of the brand new national organization, Future Farmers of America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543439930533-NMEP9PX7FLLUNZ138M4Y/trhc-fairbanks-ranch-chickens-1500.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Agriculture - Fairbanks Chickens By the early 20th century there were several thriving poultry operations in the area. Here is a circa 1910 photo of the George Fairbanks Ranch near Tomales, by Ella Jorgensen. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/exhibits-permanent/the-railroad monthly 0.5 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447365577-2F0NCSUMNYM0OUV63N2H/trhc-browns-canyon-trestle-gray0446.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Railroad - Brown’s Canyon Trestle The Brown’s Canyon trestle near Occidental was 137 feet above the stream bed below. It was, for some time, the tallest railroad trestle west of the Mississippi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447525741-LHABSYLHIMRQS6BWWC7E/trhc-train-c-1880s.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Railroad - Train 1880s North Pacific Coast engine with its tender full of cordwood, near Tomales. Circa 1880s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548814301848-Q5IX6QI55W0THK6BNOYA/trhc-trainatfreestone.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Railroad - Train at Freestone Narrow gauge railroad at Freestone depot, its tender piled high with cordwood. Circa late 19th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447159027-69PZ8B42M2KU4YSAQP3E/rr-crossing-look-out-for-cars.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Railroad - Train at Look-Out-for-the-Cars Crossing Train at crossing north of Tomales. Painted on the crossing post, facing the engineer, is “LOOK OUT FOR THE CARS.” Date not known. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543448193130-1Z3Z9T6ZBPWIW783SYMB/trhc-bodega-rr-depot-w-people-waiting.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Railroad - Bodega Depot with People Waiting The Bodega Road depot, between Bodega and Freestone, was typical of many of the era’s railroad buildings, with it board-and-batten siding and deep eaves. Image circa 1890. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447306048-2Z2TI038N8WC0LIF3NL9/trhc-jensens-at-hamlet.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Railroad - Jensens at Hamlet Henry Jensen and his wife, Gertie Guldager Jensen, at the Hamlet railroad stop, circa 1905. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447457913-VOP2IKHFFFCG8X7RDLIQ/trhc-kids-atop-tunnel.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Railroad - Kids Atop Tunnel Children atop the entrance to the narrow gauge railroad line’s longest tunnel, just north of Tomales. Circa 1910 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447449949-KAW79B9PQC1283X28QXH/trhc-tomales-depot-scaled.jpg Permanent Exhibits - The Railroad - Tomales Depot Waiting for the train at the Tomales depot, west of Carrie Street, circa 1909. Real Photo Postcard by Ella Jorgensen. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/exhibits-permanent/tomales-high-school monthly 0.5 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528562460-W9PZPHYKSACH2FJOOKWG/trhc-two-room-THS.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Tomales High School - Two-Room THS The original, two-classroom Tomales High School — with window boxes, diamond-paned sidelights at the entry, and tapered fascia boards — was obviously architect-designed (possibly by Petaluma’s Brainerd Jones). It was probably the pride of the community when it opened in August of 1912 with a student body of twenty-three. Photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548814990237-OLCI5LV6JRQ59CCIRNUS/trhc-original-THS-Trustees.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Tomales High School - Original THS Trustees The 1919 Tomales High yearbook is dedicated to these early Trustees of the school. l-r Ed. Bean, William Cornett, James Gericke, Will Irvin, and James Burns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528543636-48FE2UH2S3SU6PMTRCE5/trhc-evelyn-f-w-ths-pennant-10474.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Tomales High School - Evelyn with Pennant Evelyn Fairbanks with Tomales Union High School pennant. Photo by Ella Jorgensen, who was Evelyn’s aunt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528562567-09811MPDYIY65JZQ001S/trhc-ths-sewing-class.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Tomales High School - Sewing Class Sewing class at the recently enlarged and remodeled Tomales High School, 1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548815171776-S8WJN1E61ZQ41DMPMPPQ/trhc-cattle+-judging-team.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Tomales High School - Cattle Judging Team William Reasoner, Tomales High’s first agriculture teacher who began the schools FFA Chapter in 1929, poses with his 1931 National Championship-winning Cattle Judging team. Posing with their trophies are (l-r standing) Donovan Rego, Mr. Reasoner, Donato Albini; (seated) Neibo Casini and Ed Williams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528540097-BXTF7V8S8O752CGKYMTY/trhc-1930-HS-class.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Tomales High School - 1930 Tomales High School Class Tomales High School Class of 1930 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528552513-745R30KODCAHFUVPSWX1/trhc-THS-w-Vines.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Tomales High School - Tomales High School with Vines The 1921-enlarged and remodeled Tomales High School, looking its best with mature landscaping and a handsome sign, fabricated by shop students, at its entrance. 1939 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528533000-APHUOZZIEPIPEI3L92MQ/trhc-bea-and-school-bus.jpg Permanent Exhibits - Tomales High School - Bea and School Bus Bea McCulla (Phillips), leaning her head out the window above an unidentified teacher, poses here when she was a Tomales High student, circa late 1930s. She later became the school’s popular librarian. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/temporary-exhibits daily 0.75 2025-11-19 https://www.tomaleshistory.com/temporary-exhibits/2025/11/19/shoreline-neighbors monthly 0.5 2025-11-19 https://www.tomaleshistory.com/temporary-exhibits/tth-sesquicentennial monthly 0.5 2024-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1e22263b-2901-45a6-bb77-3c9332e4e42b/tth-sesqui.jpg Temporary Exhibits - Winter 2024/2025: 150th Anniversary of Tomales Town Hall - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/temporary-exhibits/fishermans-festival-poster-art monthly 0.5 2024-02-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1679349684661-SMOZJLUEO28069R3KWUW/2005+fish+fest.jpg Temporary Exhibits - Spring/Summer 2023: Fisherman's Festival Poster Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1679349807537-8TXJ37AKAF8UXHVBAIEM/2003a+fish+fest.jpg Temporary Exhibits - Spring/Summer 2023: Fisherman's Festival Poster Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1679349829811-AZKP1NOQK7CK76WN3UY6/1976+fish+fest.jpg Temporary Exhibits - Spring/Summer 2023: Fisherman's Festival Poster Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1679349855293-05N4X7VA2Q9GHO26U1VA/2020a+fish+fest.jpg Temporary Exhibits - Spring/Summer 2023: Fisherman's Festival Poster Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1679349905077-E8KV1FLOBLBDIZUQ0P0Q/2017a+fish+fest.jpg Temporary Exhibits - Spring/Summer 2023: Fisherman's Festival Poster Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1679349947617-6UVSSYT8H4Z3AC5MMDHX/2012+fish+fest.jpg Temporary Exhibits - Spring/Summer 2023: Fisherman's Festival Poster Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1679350011184-Y1QYNJAJIQYNEU9YAVX4/1991+fish+fest.jpg Temporary Exhibits - Spring/Summer 2023: Fisherman's Festival Poster Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1679350017165-0KG68FWH3HOHR4J4YLRU/1998+fish+fest.jpg Temporary Exhibits - Spring/Summer 2023: Fisherman's Festival Poster Art https://www.tomaleshistory.com/pioneers daily 0.75 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548811218361-0S0DIXTID9NKM58NTFFP/johnkeyes.jpg Pioneers - John Keys John Keys left his native Ireland when he was seventeen. He spent time in California’s gold mines, and farmed potatoes near Bodega before he came, in 1850, to what would become Tomales. Here he developed the port, soon named Keys Embarcadero, that would encourage a village to grow around it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548811218361-0S0DIXTID9NKM58NTFFP/johnkeyes.jpg Pioneers - John Keys John Keys left his native Ireland when he was seventeen. He spent time in California’s gold mines, and farmed potatoes near Bodega before he came, in 1850, to what would become Tomales. Here he developed the port, soon named Keys Embarcadero, that would encourage a village to grow around it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548811872432-C2IJSP3Z42647P3WHLVR/maryfrisbiejohnston.jpg Pioneers - Mary Frisbie Johnston Twenty-one year old Mary Hunt Frisbie arrived with her husband at the Tomales port in 1863 after a sail, around the Horn, from New York to San Francisco. She spent a long and productive life in the area, buried two husbands, and died in her eighties. Circa 1920 photo by Mrs. Johnston’s daughter, Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548813120920-550R2ZXC683X3EHWQ722/woodworthhousetomales-crop.jpg Pioneers - Woodworth House The Woodworth family at their circa early-1860s home near Tomales. Dairyman Abijah Woodworth and his wife Abigail were both themselves children of very early California pioneers. Abigail had a large part in the design of this Gothic-inspired house, the entire upper floor of which was a ballroom. The house was eventually destroyed by fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534465581988-CXFWP0IIV83HJXESPXTW/george-dillon.jpg Pioneers - George Dillon George Dillon, original owner of the beach that bears his name. When Dillon sold some of his Dillon’s Beach ranch to a developer, his stipulation was that the property would always remain known as Dillon’s Beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534465553171-X0727OLIRBXZT9QRRAI5/dillon-and-ables.jpg Pioneers - Dillon and Ables Pioneer rancher George Dillon left, and Thomas J. Ables, who first organized Marin County’s school system, were early Tomales Township neighbors and friends. Photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534465615849-2I4GU1RFA4P7L2B4PHDM/guldager-house-windmill.jpg Pioneers - Guldager House with Windmill Hans and Caroline Guldager in the front garden of their Dillon’s Beach Road, Tomales home, with its originally crenellated verandah roof. Circa 1920 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534465479549-G0EYQB0OCSCEC63D0TIK/hans-caroline-at-beach.jpg Pioneers - Barefoot Hans and Caroline at Beach Prussian immigrant Hans Guldager and his wife, Caroline (holding her husband’s boots and long stockings!) enjoy a walk on Dillon’s Beach. We have photographer Ella Jorgensen to thank for this rare (circa 1915) image of a barefoot pioneer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534465667116-DFTD1YQLZ2H1PVEHYS7P/j-jorgensen-famly-and-house.jpg Pioneers - Jorgen Jensen Family and House Pioneers Jorgen Jensen and his wife Sillie, pose with son and daughter, Walter and Carrie, in front of one of the first Upper Town, Tomales houses. This was originally the home of another pioneer, blacksmith Reed Dutton. Circa 1915 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/events-1 daily 0.75 2024-02-07 https://www.tomaleshistory.com/events-1/2024/2/25/fog-lecture monthly 0.5 2024-02-07 https://www.tomaleshistory.com/events-1/2021/12/26/closed monthly 0.5 2021-10-24 https://www.tomaleshistory.com/events-1/2021/12/25/closed monthly 0.5 2021-10-24 https://www.tomaleshistory.com/events-1/2021/11/7/open-house monthly 0.5 2021-10-24 https://www.tomaleshistory.com/events-1/2021/7/4/museum-reopening-to-public monthly 0.5 2021-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1621722297552-WVCU0WKBACKD79ZNLOTD/unsplash-image-gdTxVSAE5sk.jpg Events 1 - Come and celebrate the 4th with us! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/events-1/2019/12/01/ella-jorgensen-opening-and-panel-discussion monthly 0.5 2019-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1574799935171-P368UPRTE31T7XP9PP3B/ella-retro-mockup-IMG_3478.jpg Events 1 - Opening Reception + Panel Discussion Full-size mock-up of installation and signage, Ella Jorgensen Retrospective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1574800222203-UKFEMMQITVCR2BBRCH6J/ella-retro-curators-desk-IMG_3475.jpg Events 1 - Opening Reception + Panel Discussion Curator’s desk during the installation of the Ella Jorgensen Retrospective. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/story-of-tomales daily 0.75 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363710254-MN0Q2SFXE59BR5UVII4C/embarcadero-map-grayscale.jpg Story of Tomales - Embarcadero Map Hand-drawn map of Keys Embarcadero, dated 1859, for cover the Marin Magazine. Straight road upper right is where Highway One is today; its southern terminus here is approximately at today’s intersection with Tomales-Petaluma Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363710254-MN0Q2SFXE59BR5UVII4C/embarcadero-map-grayscale.jpg Story of Tomales - Embarcadero Map Hand-drawn map of Keys Embarcadero, dated 1859, for cover the Marin Magazine. Straight road upper right is where Highway One is today; its southern terminus here is approximately at today’s intersection with Tomales-Petaluma Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363724765-6QN0AEKGNHKS4TXH6IDR/trhc-warehouse-at-estuary.jpg Story of Tomales - Warehouse on Estuary View of Tomales north, from a hill south of town. Large flat roof left is a warehouse — probably built near the end of the port’s life, when goods needed to be transferred to lighters because of the increasingly shallow water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363726927-ZMNVCOO8ICPX8FMPS6PY/trhc-tomales-early-view-w-children.jpg Story of Tomales - Tomales Intersection Early View A morning image of Tomales’s main intersection, view SW. Two story building right is today’s Diekmann’s General Store; Church of the Assumption is in distance left. Circa 1878. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363701390-AZFINDONTWCQNZWP8NDK/trhc-1st-tomales-creamery.jpg Story of Tomales - First Tomales Creamery Creamery built at Lower Town, Tomales in 1875 — an era of development and economic growth in the village. Photo by Ella Jorgensen circa early 20th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543365262120-XS575ETMRAOUPQLYHRCD/train-at-db-rd-trestle-tomales.jpg Story of Tomales - Train at Dillon Beach Road Trestle North West Pacific train #37 crossing trestle near Dillon’s Beach Road, Tomales. 1929 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363716739-Z2ALM2Y0CHQZI04JJIRO/trhc-rr-map.jpg Story of Tomales - Northwestern Pacific Railroad Map of Tomales This is a 1922 revision of a 1912 railroad map. Non-railroad buildings are per 1911 Sanborn Fire Insurance map of Tomales https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363730648-WMBZFAYG7P9O92U6XNPE/dr-winn-in-front-of-house-thumb.jpg Story of Tomales - Dr. Winn in Front of House Tomales physician Dr. Winn practiced here in the early 20th century. He is posed here in front of his house and office, still extant today on the east side of Maine Street/Highway One. Photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543363718207-J9OAMAP24OTBOIB0STHR/trhc-N-up-Hwy-One.jpg Story of Tomales - North Up Highway One After Fire View north up Highway One across intersection with Dillon’s Beach Road. Most of these buildings are extant and recognizable today. Photo by Ella Jorgensen, early 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543366159653-QLTGMM40AIAQDKF4LWJN/trhc-98-1st-two-cars.jpg Story of Tomales - 98 First Street with Cars A sure sign of changing methods of transportation, the first automobile repair shop in Tomales was opened by Swiss immigrant Isadore Cerini in 1915. The Dillon’s Beach Road building, with its original, decorative zinc ridge-crest still intact, is extant today. Circa 1920 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/miwok daily 0.75 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543287993189-KBSNTX96RX7XA7NCYLEK/trhc-miwok-artifacts-case.jpg Miwok - Miwok Artifacts in Case Artifacts, including strings of clamshell and olivella shell beads, used as currency, from the collection on view in our exhibit “Before the Pioneers: the Coast Miwoks.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543287993189-KBSNTX96RX7XA7NCYLEK/trhc-miwok-artifacts-case.jpg Miwok - Miwok Artifacts in Case Artifacts, including strings of clamshell and olivella shell beads, used as currency, from the collection on view in our exhibit “Before the Pioneers: the Coast Miwoks.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543350512028-84VGAKXMBFESASCPFG4R/trhc-miwok-trade-beads-in-case.jpg Miwok - Miwok Trade Beads Trade beads, usually glass or ceramic, were obtained by native peoples as gifts from — or through trade with — European and Russian explorers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543288010243-6673S28FMK7UE1UX5CIM/trhc-wmsmithsr-0020.jpg Miwok - Wm. Smith, Sr. William (Bill) Smith was the patriarch of the modern Smith family, and founder of the Bodega Bay fishing industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543288011227-KEM3FQ4X7FYSXU8WSLI9/trhc-packingseine0000.jpg Miwok - Packing Seine Packing seine, large fishing nets with sinkers that hang vertically in the water, used to enclose and catch fish. Photo courtesy Young Ernest Smith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543287983464-5ARAQ8HHSN39U0GWZOWH/trhc-6bros5sisters-0004.jpg Miwok - Six Brothers Five Sisters Two of the Smith brothers’ boats were named Six Brothers and Five Sisters, in honor of the eleven children of Bill and Rosalie Charles Smith. Photo courtesy Young Ernest Smith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543288321117-GZIMMBWGLA8OKMS9B6WC/smith-bros-one-0008.jpg Miwok - Smith Bros. No. 1 One of a pair of 50-foot diesel trawlers — christened Smith Bros. No. 1 and Smith Bros. No. 2 — that the Bodega Bay-based Smith Brothers Fishery commissioned from Sausalito ship builders in the early 20th century. Theirs was the first commercial fishing operation in Sonoma County. (l‒r) Eddy Smith, Bill Orr, Harold Ames, Bill Smith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543288001619-BEE6CVRSM6XRW695B7AX/trhc-smithbros-old+warehouse0012.jpg Miwok - Smith Brothers Old Warehouse Smith Brothers Fishery’s warehouse, circa 1915. Brothers back row l-r Angelo, Young Ernest, Stephen Smith; at right Bill Smith, Jr. (two men in front unknown). Courtesy Young Ernest Smith, Jr. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543287993696-VFKWMZNYZWR2J4MSJNR5/trhc-marshallschool0013.jpg Miwok - Marshall School The Marshall School was attended by many Coast Miwok children who lived at nearby Fisherman’s Village in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/ths daily 0.75 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528562460-W9PZPHYKSACH2FJOOKWG/trhc-two-room-THS.jpg THS - Two-Room THS The original, two-classroom Tomales High School — with window boxes, diamond-paned sidelights at the entry, and tapered fascia boards — was obviously architect-designed (possibly by Petaluma’s Brainerd Jones). It was probably the pride of the community when it opened in August of 1912 with a student body of twenty-three. Photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528562460-W9PZPHYKSACH2FJOOKWG/trhc-two-room-THS.jpg THS - Two-Room THS The original, two-classroom Tomales High School — with window boxes, diamond-paned sidelights at the entry, and tapered fascia boards — was obviously architect-designed (possibly by Petaluma’s Brainerd Jones). It was probably the pride of the community when it opened in August of 1912 with a student body of twenty-three. Photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548814990237-OLCI5LV6JRQ59CCIRNUS/trhc-original-THS-Trustees.jpg THS - Original THS Trustees The 1919 Tomales High yearbook is dedicated to these early Trustees of the school. l-r Ed. Bean, William Cornett, James Gericke, Will Irvin, and James Burns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528543636-48FE2UH2S3SU6PMTRCE5/trhc-evelyn-f-w-ths-pennant-10474.jpg THS - Evelyn with Pennant Evelyn Fairbanks with Tomales Union High School pennant. Photo by Ella Jorgensen, who was Evelyn’s aunt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528562567-09811MPDYIY65JZQ001S/trhc-ths-sewing-class.jpg THS - Sewing Class Sewing class at the recently enlarged and remodeled Tomales High School, 1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548815171776-S8WJN1E61ZQ41DMPMPPQ/trhc-cattle+-judging-team.jpg THS - Cattle Judging Team William Reasoner, Tomales High’s first agriculture teacher who began the schools FFA Chapter in 1929, poses with his 1931 National Championship-winning Cattle Judging team. Posing with their trophies are (l-r standing) Donovan Rego, Mr. Reasoner, Donato Albini; (seated) Neibo Casini and Ed Williams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528540097-BXTF7V8S8O752CGKYMTY/trhc-1930-HS-class.jpg THS - 1930 Tomales High School Class Tomales High School Class of 1930 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528552513-745R30KODCAHFUVPSWX1/trhc-THS-w-Vines.jpg THS - Tomales High School with Vines The 1921-enlarged and remodeled Tomales High School, looking its best with mature landscaping and a handsome sign, fabricated by shop students, at its entrance. 1939 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543528533000-APHUOZZIEPIPEI3L92MQ/trhc-bea-and-school-bus.jpg THS - Bea and School Bus Bea McCulla (Phillips), leaning her head out the window above an unidentified teacher, poses here when she was a Tomales High student, circa late 1930s. She later became the school’s popular librarian. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/agriculture daily 0.75 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444158308-4FKQYEJ1AUUQFVE4C0PL/trhc-luke-fallon-ranch.jpg Agriculture - Luke Fallon Ranch The Luke Fallon Ranch, two miles north of Tomales. Photo circa 1870. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444158308-4FKQYEJ1AUUQFVE4C0PL/trhc-luke-fallon-ranch.jpg Agriculture - Luke Fallon Ranch The Luke Fallon Ranch, two miles north of Tomales. Photo circa 1870. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444142922-BTF0PGLJ6GOVEH6NGTK4/trhc-e-ranch-creamery.jpg Agriculture - E Ranch Creamery Interior of creamery on Claussen Eutter maker John Paulino left with Henry Claussen, circa 1880s. Photo courtesy of the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444167094-19173MNQSQ01KEG4MROD/trhc-respini-milkers.jpg Agriculture - Respini Milkers Milking in the field at the Respini Ranch near Marshall, circa 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444165365-9PJ1Y4JX1N3ZOHXCOZP7/trhc-threshing-crew.jpg Agriculture - Threshing Crew A threshing crew near Bloomfield, with sacks full of the grain (probably wheat, oats, or barley) separated from its stalks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444135793-UAQ06IY7WET1D67OVQ66/trhc-bailing-crew.jpg Agriculture - Bailing Crew Bailing crew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444143567-VID4B06FHXI9C9G0JEQ7/trhc-bailing-hay.jpg Agriculture - Bailing Hay A hay bailing crew near Tomales poses with a 500-pound, five-wire hay press, circa 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444155612-8BAR8FBKJV4UYQ1V94X0/trhc-potato-planter-13.42.27-1500.jpg Agriculture - Potato Planter This 1920 Iron Age potato planter, on view in the Agriculture History exhibit, seeded many local harvests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543444173686-PB0GRN9P9NU15OJBG16Z/trhc-THS-ag-club-shop.jpg Agriculture - Tomales High School Agriculture Club Tomales High School’s Agriculture Club predated the school’s FFA chapter. This image is of the agriculture club’s workshop was shot in 1923. By 1929 Tomales High School had a chapter of the brand new national organization, Future Farmers of America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543439930533-NMEP9PX7FLLUNZ138M4Y/trhc-fairbanks-ranch-chickens-1500.jpg Agriculture - Fairbanks Chickens By the early 20th century there were several thriving poultry operations in the area. Here is a circa 1910 photo of the George Fairbanks Ranch near Tomales, by Ella Jorgensen. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/railroad daily 0.75 2019-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447365577-2F0NCSUMNYM0OUV63N2H/trhc-browns-canyon-trestle-gray0446.jpg Railroad - Brown’s Canyon Trestle The Brown’s Canyon trestle near Occidental was 137 feet above the stream bed below. It was, for some time, the tallest railroad trestle west of the Mississippi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447365577-2F0NCSUMNYM0OUV63N2H/trhc-browns-canyon-trestle-gray0446.jpg Railroad - Brown’s Canyon Trestle The Brown’s Canyon trestle near Occidental was 137 feet above the stream bed below. It was, for some time, the tallest railroad trestle west of the Mississippi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447525741-LHABSYLHIMRQS6BWWC7E/trhc-train-c-1880s.jpg Railroad - Train 1880s North Pacific Coast engine with its tender full of cordwood, near Tomales. Circa 1880s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1548814301848-Q5IX6QI55W0THK6BNOYA/trhc-trainatfreestone.jpg Railroad - Train at Freestone Narrow gauge railroad at Freestone depot, its tender piled high with cordwood. Circa late 19th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447159027-69PZ8B42M2KU4YSAQP3E/rr-crossing-look-out-for-cars.jpg Railroad - Train at Look-Out-for-the-Cars Crossing Train at crossing north of Tomales. Painted on the crossing post, facing the engineer, is “LOOK OUT FOR THE CARS.” Date not known. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543448193130-1Z3Z9T6ZBPWIW783SYMB/trhc-bodega-rr-depot-w-people-waiting.jpg Railroad - Bodega Depot with People Waiting The Bodega Road depot, between Bodega and Freestone, was typical of many of the era’s railroad buildings, with it board-and-batten siding and deep eaves. Image circa 1890. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447306048-2Z2TI038N8WC0LIF3NL9/trhc-jensens-at-hamlet.jpg Railroad - Jensens at Hamlet Henry Jensen and his wife, Gertie Guldager Jensen, at the Hamlet railroad stop, circa 1905. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447457913-VOP2IKHFFFCG8X7RDLIQ/trhc-kids-atop-tunnel.jpg Railroad - Kids Atop Tunnel Children atop the entrance to the narrow gauge railroad line’s longest tunnel, just north of Tomales. Circa 1910 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543447449949-KAW79B9PQC1283X28QXH/trhc-tomales-depot-scaled.jpg Railroad - Tomales Depot Waiting for the train at the Tomales depot, west of Carrie Street, circa 1909. Real Photo Postcard by Ella Jorgensen. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/ella-jorgensen-preview-images daily 0.75 2018-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543533431561-QCS8YHL649ME5PQHUF6D/trhc-bakers.jpg Ella Jorgensen Preview - Tomales Bakery Baker Charles Stone and his wife, Vesta, at their Maine Street Tomales Bakery. The 1870s-era building is extant, and is now a private home. Circa 1905 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543533431561-QCS8YHL649ME5PQHUF6D/trhc-bakers.jpg Ella Jorgensen Preview - Tomales Bakery Baker Charles Stone and his wife, Vesta, at their Maine Street Tomales Bakery. The 1870s-era building is extant, and is now a private home. Circa 1905 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1544664319159-R732WDSJV37NN9T517KK/trhc-thomas-ables-digging-w-chicken-and-shadows.jpg Ella Jorgensen Preview - Thomas Ables Digging with Chicken A morning view of Tomales pioneer Thomas Ables digging in his front garden while a chicken waits for worms, circa 1906. The photographer’s shadow is in the corner of image. Photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543533428439-UEIDM6LBFVF2BJEV00ZB/trhc-evelyn-fairbanks-with-chicken0369.jpg Ella Jorgensen Preview - Bench Portrait: Evelyn Fairbanks with Chicken Evelyn Fairbanks, the photographer’s niece is a familiar subject of her Bench Portraits. Here Evelyn holds a chicken. Circa 1915 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1544664688797-WTV42WJPGRWS1E5J6IIM/trhc-bank-of-tomales.jpg Ella Jorgensen Preview - Bank of Tomales This small Beaux Arts bank was the third Bank of Tomales at this spot. The first Bank of Tomales was built here in 1875 and burned later. The second was built of brick, only to collapse in the 1906 earthquake. This building was lost in a large commercial district fire here in 1920 and immediately rebuilt. This fourth bank — eventually the Bank of America, and finally the Novato National Bank, is now a private home. Photo by Ella Jorgensen, circa 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1544664914025-I3QSVVQISLRJBAX18AQ7/trhc-train-at-station-ella.jpg Ella Jorgensen Preview - Meeting the Train at Tomales A small crowd meets the train, with cars and a bicycle, at the Tomales Depot west of Carrie Street. Circa 1920s photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543533437703-IBBQNAKYZPEKLX2XJH1O/trhc-self-portrait-ella-a17.jpg Ella Jorgensen Preview - Bench Portrait: Self Portrait of Ella The photographer was apparently dressed for an important occasion and posed in front of her signature garden bench for this portrait, while someone else actually tripped the shutter. Circa mid-1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1544665067991-1TF7ARJX57L8KCDO9FRG/trhc-dillonsbeach-streetscape-ella.jpg Ella Jorgensen Preview - Dillon’s Beach Streetscape with People A Dillon’s Beach streetscape of Park Avenue, view toward North Street, with some of the village’s original small cabins already showing minor alteration and enlargement. Circa 1920s image by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1543533409493-L657V0MRIB9AR8NEU805/trhc-1980-046-020-cropped.jpg Ella Jorgensen Preview - Corner Dillon’s Beach Road with Church and Carrie Streets A view north across Dillon’s Beach Road in Tomales, at the intersection with Church and Carrie Streets. The rows of daffodils in foreground indicate the image was shot in March. 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Valley Ford Family Creamery and the Story of Cheese - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/the-region daily 0.75 2025-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1539978232534-98DAQFW7DJBHQRW7F7SD/trhc-christo-runningfence-through-VF.jpg The Region Christo’s Running Fence bisected the town of Valley Ford, though its flow was interrupted by Highway One, 1976. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1539988789449-ETFO0PPL3ZU61M1CFVS8/image-asset.jpeg The Region A late 19th century view of the once busy Lower Town, Tomales, looking south toward intersection of Highway One and Tomales‒Petaluma Road. The center building is still extant, its straight false front now gabled. The large building at right was the American Hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1539987453796-HP5KX7XA511D1AF7MARW/trhc-catching-oysters0010.jpg The Region Members of the well-known Smith family of fishermen, harvesting oysters in Tomales Bay, circa 1917. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company is just visible in the distance at left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1539988957371-B9T3KOFH367UJXXIHDXH/trhc-harvesting-potatoes.jpg The Region A. D. Hopkins with daughters Doris and Annie, harvesting potatoes near Tomales, circa late 19th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1540424085921-JH6RXF33NATL6KLN05H4/trhc-Tomales-depot.jpg The Region Tomales railroad depot was just west of Carrie Street. Circa 1920 photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1539990678738-MCBGZVW15Z2O3EAJZ3D0/trhc-houses-on-Maine-c1915.jpg The Region Five houses on the west side of Tomales’s Maine Street (Highway One). The side-gabled houses all date from the 1860s ‒ the early1880s; the shingled, front-gabled house is brand new, still without most of its trim work. Note the hitching rails at some front gates. Photo by Ella Jorgensen, circa 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1539992032848-YYS73LWISOXG9RLWRSUT/image-asset.jpeg The Region The brand new stone Catholic church at Tomales, built to replace the wood frame Church of the Assumption. Photo by Ella Jorgensen, circa 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1539992148185-QOIA62V6R0DNSRTYISVT/trhc-stone-church-ruins.jpg The Region Ruins of the six-year-old stone church, demolished by the 1906 earthquake. (The smaller, wood-frame church built in 1860 still serves its congregation today.) Photo by Ella Jorgensen, circa 1906. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1540423986810-52OSVUVQ39AKPLLZXYOI/trhc-w-out-DB-Road.jpg The Region A view west from First Street across Highway One, Upper Town Tomales’s main intersection, a few years before a large fire destroyed sixteen buildings, including the hotel on the corner, one just visible behind it, and the livery stable in shadow, all at left. Photo by Ella Jorgensen circa 1916. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/b1f203f9-2ffa-45ab-81c5-5c8c6b64330b/walking-tour-new-2025.jpg The Region Download this PDF for a self-guided walking tour. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/study-hall daily 0.75 2021-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1540425051138-JV9QTY860ZJSMF0QIRSL/THS-study-hall0085.jpg Study Hall Study Hall at the recently enlarged Tomales High School, 1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1540426674778-MF1G0YJ98NRH5ZI0ZMN1/trhc-goat-cart-toy.jpg Study Hall A toy goat cart, made of iron with still-functioning wheels, found buried in Tomales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1541115643183-JL1DY642AOXN1OMEU5XG/trhc-bulletin-39_1.jpg Study Hall BULLETIN, Tomales Regional History Center, Vol. 39, Number 1, Winter 2018 This New Year edition of the quarterly was inspired in large part by the disastrous fires in our neighboring Sonoma County a few months earlier. The issue’s theme of “Change, Recovery, and Adaptation” is a common one across all of history, and the issue explores the cycles, large and small, of local change and recovery, from well before settlement to today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1541116051993-IOQISA5G4Z6LSQTFWPMX/trhc-bulletin-39_2.jpg Study Hall BULLETIN, Tomales Regional History Center, Vol. 39, Number 2, Spring 2018 In the History Center’s 40th year, we are both remembering our beginning and considering our progress. This introspective Bulletin issue examines the organization’s Mission Statement, with words and pictures. There is also a short piece about native son A. Bray Dickinson (1890 ̶ 1958), a local historian from whom we have learned much about the narrow gauge railroad and the village of Tomales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1541127379255-4MXLTBKXP24E5W0RYYI3/trhc-fallon-creamery-interior.jpg Study Hall Interior of the Fallon Creamery, one of the region’s largest creamery operations, with owners, workers, and probably some family members, circa 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1541126291114-6FNW2VQNGIXTYSPQXN0P/trhc-taylorville-train-stop.jpg Study Hall Picnickers waiting for train pose near Lagunitas Creek on and around a tree stump, circa early 20th century. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/step-up/become-a-member daily 0.75 2025-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1541124461274-OLHXMRO4GV0TLL9ZPGYD/trhc-valley-ford-crowd.jpg Become a Member A well-dressed crowd poses at the Valley Ford railroad depot, circa early 20th century. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/step-up/donate daily 0.75 2025-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1541124182995-KE714MPHDZJPOI7FK8DH/trhc-salminabros-store-interior.jpg Donate Brothers Charlie and Felix Salmina, with unidentified customer, in their Marshall general store — today the Hog Island Oyster building, circa 1930. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/site-highlights-pl-1 daily 0.75 2018-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1542433405022-FMAOEZY0L8CUP44URUGY/trhc-three-cheerleaders.jpg Site Highlights https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1540510107736-9YFSH45JLRYH45AL6B7D/trhc-walking-tour-brochure.jpg Site Highlights https://www.tomaleshistory.com/about-trhc daily 0.75 2025-12-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1539975097800-V31G9WH3USG6078P7R7S/THS-remodeled-enlarged-w-tankhouse-pcard.jpg About TRHC Post card of the enlarged and remodeled Tomales High School. The school’s Mission Revival style section (right) was lost to a fire in 1977, but the front-gabled gymnasium/auditorium was saved and is now home to the History Center. Photo by Ella Jorgensen, circa 1921. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1534376083158-X7461UTUWET2NB6YHEDK/image-asset.jpeg About TRHC A 1921 Tomales High School Calf Club event. The club operated at the school before the FFA chapter was formed in 1929. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1539913386072-NNDBFE5YWYSE7M7R6SAX/THS%2Bauditorium.jpg About TRHC Closer detail of the enlarged Tomales High School. Photo by Ella Jorgensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1539975874774-SZ8X614WU78SFX4RXAW0/THS-graduation-invitations.jpg About TRHC These early Tomales High School Commencement programs seem of remarkable style and quality for such a small rural school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1539915032159-1F7ALMVKIJPKSBL7W670/trhc-basement-level-cafeteria.jpg About TRHC Tomales High School’s cafeteria occupied the auditorium’s lower level. Today a section of this space serves as the TRHC’s meeting room. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/temporary-exhibit daily 0.75 2023-03-20 https://www.tomaleshistory.com/step-up/volunteer daily 0.75 2024-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1541125023325-RGMABM6F4RMX3XBOUO9V/trhc-three-cheerleaders.jpg Volunteer Tomales High School yell leaders (l‒r) Beverly Fiori, Louise Gonnella, and Lois Thompson, at the school’s front steps,1950. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1541127867712-0XWB1NBBUIN5B99QX7N5/trhc-THS-modern-dance.jpg Contact A 1923 modern dance class at Tomales High School’s newly built (and apparently not quite finished) auditorium/gymnasium — today the History Center’s museum. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/events-grid daily 0.75 2022-03-12 https://www.tomaleshistory.com/archives daily 0.75 2025-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1540425051138-JV9QTY860ZJSMF0QIRSL/THS-study-hall0085.jpg Archives Study Hall at the recently enlarged Tomales High School, 1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1540426674778-MF1G0YJ98NRH5ZI0ZMN1/trhc-goat-cart-toy.jpg Archives A toy goat cart, made of iron with still-functioning wheels, found buried in Tomales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1541115643183-JL1DY642AOXN1OMEU5XG/trhc-bulletin-39_1.jpg Archives BULLETIN, Tomales Regional History Center, Vol. 39, Number 1, Winter 2018 This New Year edition of the quarterly was inspired in large part by the disastrous fires in our neighboring Sonoma County a few months earlier. The issue’s theme of “Change, Recovery, and Adaptation” is a common one across all of history, and the issue explores the cycles, large and small, of local change and recovery, from well before settlement to today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1541116051993-IOQISA5G4Z6LSQTFWPMX/trhc-bulletin-39_2.jpg Archives BULLETIN, Tomales Regional History Center, Vol. 39, Number 2, Spring 2018 In the History Center’s 40th year, we are both remembering our beginning and considering our progress. This introspective Bulletin issue examines the organization’s Mission Statement, with words and pictures. There is also a short piece about native son A. Bray Dickinson (1890 ̶ 1958), a local historian from whom we have learned much about the narrow gauge railroad and the village of Tomales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/1541126291114-6FNW2VQNGIXTYSPQXN0P/trhc-taylorville-train-stop.jpg Archives Picnickers waiting for train pose near Lagunitas Creek on and around a tree stump, circa early 20th century. https://www.tomaleshistory.com/bulletin-archives daily 0.75 2025-09-29 https://www.tomaleshistory.com/gallery daily 0.75 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4814de85ede1d62f2392e5/c2815218-fe49-48e1-868d-2945b44db567/trhc-gallery-cowgirl.jpg Gallery https://www.tomaleshistory.com/store daily 0.75 2024-06-01