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  1. Cushing cottage on Cottage Ave., Mill Valley, CA, circa 1925
  2. Early pioneers of Mill Valley, including Sidney Cushing, circa 1890s
  3. Founders of the Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway,  circa 1890
  4. Letter from Mill Valley & Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway President Sidney B. Cushing to J.A. McPherson - Ephemera

    Letter from Mill Valley & Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway President Sidney B. Cushing to J.A. McPherson, February 7, 1908. Originally enclosed with annual passes for the Mill Valley & Mt. Tamalpais Scenic Railway and asking the Iowa and Eastern Railroad Company for passes for the following Scenic Railway officers: S.B. Cushing, C.F. Runyon, H.W. Carothers, W.J. Thomas.

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    Letter from Mill Valley Railway's Sidney B. Cushing to J.A. McPherson
  5. Mrs. Cushing's home on West Blithedale Ave., 1900-1920
  6. Oral History of Ellie Wood - Oral History

    In this oral history, Debra Schwartz sits down with Ellie Wood and her son Tim Wood at Ellie's home in Portola Valley to view old photographs of Mill Valley and discuss her life and family history. 98 years old at the time this interview was recorded, Ellie was born in 1918, and was the great-granddaughter of John Cushing, regarded as the first settler of Blithedale Canyon. Ellie shares memories of growing up on Eldridge Avenue, walking downtown ...

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    Ellie Wood photo courtesy of Debra Schwartz
  7. Oral History of Ruth White Bowie - Oral History

    Ruth White Bowie was one of Mill Valley's grande dames in the true sense, though she would have deplored the use of the term. Ruth was born in San Francisco, and she and her twin sister were educated at Miss West's private school in the city, then at the Waltham School for Girls near Boston and Briarcliff Manor on the Hudson. In 1910, Ruth married Ralston L. White, a member of one of Mill Valley's most influential families. In this oral history, ...

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  8. Oral History of Timothy Eldridge Wood - Oral History

    In this oral history, Timothy Eldridge Wood shares stories from his family history that shed light on the prehistory and early development of Mill Valley. Born in San Francisco in 1948, Timothy grew up in Woodside on the Peninsula, though recalls frequently coming to Marin during his youth to visit relatives. Timothy attended college at U.C. Santa Barbara and graduate school at Yale before moving to Salt Lake City where, at the time this intervie...

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    Tim Wood, photo by Debra Schwartz
  9. Portrait, Sidney B.Cushing
  10. Tavern of Tamalpais, Mrs Lent & Sidney Cushing, circa 1897

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