San Geronimo Valley Historical Society

San Geronimo Valley Historical Society The San Geronimo Valley Historical Society preserves and honors our Valley's history.

More images from the Miwok land / Roy Ranch / San Geronimo Golf Course / San Geronimo Commons as the land transitioned f...
12/26/2025

More images from the Miwok land / Roy Ranch / San Geronimo Golf Course / San Geronimo Commons as the land transitioned from ranching to golf course.

Photos taken by Rex Noah in 1960s, images digitized by in 2025.

Have you ever wondered what the Coast Miwok land/San Geronimo Commons/San Geronimo Golf Course area looked like before, ...
12/24/2025

Have you ever wondered what the Coast Miwok land/San Geronimo Commons/San Geronimo Golf Course area looked like before, during, and right after construction? We have nearly 100 photos that were just digitized to archive.org that show the transformation. Just search archive.org for "San Geronimo" for the full set. Hope you find them interesting, and Happy Holidays. Thank you very much to for making this happen.

Then and Now: Montezuma Ave at Guadalupe Ave in downtown Forest Knolls around 1920 and in 2024.📷 Courtesy Lyons Filmer C...
08/30/2025

Then and Now: Montezuma Ave at Guadalupe Ave in downtown Forest Knolls around 1920 and in 2024.

📷 Courtesy Lyons Filmer Collection, SGVHS / Google Maps

The largest of the Loma Alta train trestles leading up and over Whites Hill - circa 1900.📷 Chuck Ford Collection, SGVHS
08/15/2025

The largest of the Loma Alta train trestles leading up and over Whites Hill - circa 1900.

📷 Chuck Ford Collection, SGVHS

We’re honored to have been entrusted with the preservation of a wonderful man’s legendary Marin history photo collection...
08/14/2025

We’re honored to have been entrusted with the preservation of a wonderful man’s legendary Marin history photo collection. Chuck Ford passed away in May of this year after a life filled with mentoring students and both taking photos (he spent over two decades as a professional photographer before becoming a teacher) and gathering historic photos of the county. His vast Marin history photo collection spans the late 1800s into the mid 1900s. This rarely seen view shows pre-Woodacre and the greater San Geronimo Valley as it looked in 1911. Thank you, Chuck.

📷 Chuck Ford Collection, SGVHS

The original Woodacre Improvement Club pool in the late 1940s or early 1950s 🏊‍♂️☀️🕶️🧴.Photos by Seth Woods, SGVHS Colle...
07/09/2025

The original Woodacre Improvement Club pool in the late 1940s or early 1950s 🏊‍♂️☀️🕶️🧴.

Photos by Seth Woods, SGVHS Collection.

Happy New Year, all. We are grateful to have been selected for digitization assistance by California Revealed, a program...
01/14/2025

Happy New Year, all. We are grateful to have been selected for digitization assistance by California Revealed, a program of the State Librarian. We look forward to sharing the results of the partnership - dozens of scanned landscape images of the San Geronimo Golf Course (now San Geronimo Commons) before, during, and after the course’s construction. Digitization is so important for physical materials for which there is only one hard copy, which is the case for these slides taken by donor Rex Noah - who grew up in the Valley. We’re sending hope to the people and archives of Los Angeles in the face of the devastating fires affecting the city.

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5800 Sir Francis Drake Blvd
San Geronimo, CA

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Thursday 1pm - 5pm

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