Mills Hall

Mills Hall stands in Huichin, the land of the Chochenyo-speaking Ohlone, on ground the building's 1971 register nomination says had held an Indian rancheria. Cyrus Mills bought 55 acres here in 1870, construction began that June, and in 1871 his and Susan Mills's seminary came down from Benicia. The building held nearly the whole school: classrooms, the president's rooms, quarters for teachers and students, a music room, lecture halls and a hospital ward. Nothing cast marks it, and the state's register text still misprints the college as Hue college.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muir Woods National Monument — 23 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.
• Muir Beach Overlook — 23 mi
  A cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.

More markers nearby

• Peralta Hacienda Site — 2.0 mi
• Site of Blossom Rock Navigation Trees — 2.2 mi
• Joaquin Miller Home — 2.2 mi
• Rainbow Trout Species Identified — 2.6 mi