Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park

Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park

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Location: Off Highway 1, 2 miles south of Marshall.
Facilities: Lodging, meeting rooms, food service, jogging trail with a paracourse, volleyball and badminton courts, horseshoe pits.
Activities: Bicycling, hiking, birdwatching, fishing.
Special Features: Center is situated on wooded hills overlooking scenic Tomales Bay in Marin County, north of San Francisco. The site is operated as a non-profit conference facility so that the grounds are preserved and protected while historical buildings at the site are being reconstructed. This was once the site of Gugliemo Marconi's historic 1913-1920 Trans-Pacific Wireless Station, and the station's main building, which once housed station workers and Marconi's guests, is undergoing a complete restoration. When completed, the building is predicted to become a grand landmark.
Address: PO Box 789
Marshall, CA 94940
Phone: 415-663-9020;
Web: www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=467
Size: 62.4 acres.

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