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Contra Costa County
The Historic Site preserves the 14
room mansion where the naturalist John Muir lived from 1890 to his death
in 1914. While living in Martinez, Muir accomplished many things: he
battled to prevent Yosemite National Park's Hetch Hetchy Valley from being
dammed, served as the first president and one of the founders of the
Sierra Club, played a prominent role in the creation of several national
parks, and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and several books
expounding on the virtues of conservation and the natural world.
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