View from the North Pacific Coast Railroad train as it approaches the San Anselmo station, with Mount Tamalpais in the distance. Marin County, California, 1889 [photograph]
Creator
unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1889
Publication Information
Marin County Free Library. Anne T. Kent California Room
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Description
This photo is from an album documenting an outing by a group of friends to Camp Taylor in Marin County, 1889. Here the excursionists are on the train home, approaching the San Anselmo station, with Mt. Tamalpais rising up in the distance. When the narrow-gauge North Pacific Coast Railroad was completed in 1875 it ran through Camp Taylor (site of Samuel P. Taylor's paper mill) making it a popular destination for excursionists. By 1877 parties were coming from San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area to enjoy the great outdoors. It was one of the first places in the U.S. to offer camping as a recreational activity.
North Pacific Coast Railroad Company--Pictorial Works Railroads 1870-1890 Taylor, Samuel Penfield, 1827-1886
Place
Marin County (Calif.) Taylorville (Calif.) San Anselmo (Calif.)
Source
Photograph from folio [19], "Camp Taylor (Samuel P. Taylor Park), 1889" album, Anne T. Kent California Room, Marin County Free Library (Call number A. 1633.001)
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