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[[File:samuel p taylor park sign.jpg|thumb|right|Park sign from the western entrance along [[Sir Francis Drake Boulevard]]]]▼
==History==
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The park is named for [[Samuel Penfield Taylor]], who found gold during the [[California Gold Rush]] and used some of his money to buy a parcel of land along [[Lagunitas Creek]].<ref>California State Parks. "[http://parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=469 Samuel P. Taylor State Park]" (accessed June 4, 2006).</ref> In 1856, Taylor built the Pioneer Paper Mill, the first paper mill on the Pacific Coast.<ref>California Office of Historic Preservation. "[http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21429 California Historical Landmarks: Marin]" (accessed June 4, 2006). See No. 552, Pioneer Paper Mill.</ref> In the 1870s, the [[North Pacific Coast Railroad]] was built between [[Cazadero, California|Cazadero]] and a pier in [[Sausalito, California|Sausalito]] where passengers could transfer to a ferry to [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]]. The railroad passed near Taylor's mill, and, ever the entrepreneur, he built the "Camp Taylor Resort" alongside the tracks. A destination for San Franciscans, the resort offered both a hotel and tent camping, as well as swimming, boating, fishing, and a dance pavilion.<ref name="Dierke">Dierke, James S. "[http://www.srmason-sj.org/council/journal/aug99/Dierke.html Samuel Penfield Taylor: Forty-niner, Timber Tycoon, Freemason] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060529054746/http://www.srmason-sj.org/council/journal/aug99/Dierke.html |date=2006-05-29 }}." ''The Scottish Rite Journal, August 1999'' (accessed June 4, 2006).</ref><ref>Kent, Anne T. "[http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/lb/main/crm/photoalbums/camptayloralbum/camptaylormain.html Camp Taylor Photo Album: Camp Taylor in 1889]" (accessed June 4, 2006).</ref>
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