What This Land Knew Before We Arrived

There is something about walking Mar East and Paradise Drive slowly, without an agenda, that changes how you understand a place.

The Coast Miwok trace their presence on this peninsula back at least 10,000 years. Their oral histories describe how their ancestors emerged from the land itself, and for millennia they were careful stewards of it. In return, the land took care of them.

The Huimen band of the Coast Miwok occupied what is now Tiburon, Belvedere, Mill Valley and Sausalito. They did not settle here randomly. Indigenous peoples understood land in ways we are only beginning to recover. They chose places where the water, the light, the air and the earth were in harmony.

Healing was woven into daily life. Plants like California Yerba Santa, Mugwort and Coastal Sagebrush were used for ceremony, protection and medicine. Mount Tamalpais, visible from much of this peninsula, was and remains a sacred site for the Coast Miwok.

Marin County is still one of the great wellness communities in the world. People come here to slow down, to breathe, to reconnect. That doesn't feel like a modern invention. It feels like a continuation of something very old.

When you stand on the shoreline in Old Tiburon and watch the fog lift off the bay, the history is still here. You just have to be quiet enough to notice it.

I have spent a lot of time on this particular stretch of Tiburon, and I believe a rare opportunity coming to this area soon will speak to someone who feels this place the way I do. Reach out before it hits the market.

Tammy Riemer | eXp Realty | 415.915.5271