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A bit of Sausalito history excerpted from The Maritime Heritage Project

On August 22, 1822, William Richardson arrived in Yerba Buena Cove aboard the English whaler, Orion. He married a lovely Spanish lass and in 1838, he received a Mexican land grant. Rancho Saucelito (Little Willow Ranch, now Sausalito) encompassed the land from Richardson Bay to the Pacific Ocean.

At one point, Captain Richardson had in his employ an Indian by the name of Monica who was a boatman on the bay. This old Indian told Captain Richardson that a long way back there was no Golden Gate; the early outlet of the bay was through the Santa Clara valley, across the Salinas plains to the Bay of Monterey. A tremendous convulsion created the passage where the Golden Gate now is and that became the entrance to the bay.

In 1856, ailing and in financial straits, Captain Richardson put Rancho Saucelito into the hands of an administrator, Samuel P. Throckmorton, and died two months later.

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