Lime Kilns

No plaque stands here, and the register's story does not hold. It credits Russian stonemasons after 1812; the National Park Service's research found the three kilns were built about 1850 by two San Francisco men, James Shorb and William Mercer, on land leased from the grantee Rafael Garcia, who under the lease furnished oxen, carts and Indian labor to haul the lime to Bolinas Lagoon. The stone was poor and the market fell away. The kilns were fired only a few times and abandoned by 1855, one still loaded with limestone never burned.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Earthquake Trail — 4.5 mi
  A short loop along the San Andreas, where a broken fence shows how far Point Reyes moved in under a minute in 1906.
• Kule Loklo — 5.0 mi
  A Coast Miwok village built in the 1970s to honour a people its builders were told had died out. They had not.
• Muir Woods National Monument — 12 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.
• Muir Beach Overlook — 12 mi
  A cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.

More markers nearby

• Pioneer Paper Mill — 2.8 mi
• Site of the Lighter Wharf at Bolinas — 4.7 mi
• Home of Lord Charles Snowden Fairfax — 9.0 mi
• Site of New Albion — 11 mi