El Campo, California

El Campo
El Campo
Private recreational facility
	El Campo Location in California El Campo El Campo (the United States)
	Coordinates: 37°53′51″N 122°27′55″W / 37.89750°N 122.46528°W
Country	United States
State	California
County	Marin County
Elevation	56 ft (17 m)

El Campo (later renamed Paradise Beach) was a picnic resort established in 1891 by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad^[2] in hopes of increasing ridership on their ferries between San Francisco and Marin. Facilities at the resort included a dance pavilion, merry-go-round, bowling alley, fishing pier, shooting gallery and over 100 acres of picnic grounds. The resort became such a popular attraction that crowds lined up on the pier in San Francisco on the weekend to catch the ferry to the resort. Because the site was only accessible by ferry, a local newspaper wrote that families could enjoy "absolute freedom from the incursions of hoodlums."^[3]

The name, El Campo, is derived from a Spanish phrase meaning "the flat country".^[4] The site was located on the San Francisco Bay, 3 miles (4.8 km) south-southeast of Point San Quentin.^[2]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: El Campo, California
^ ^a ^b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 628. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
^ Thompson, Laurie (August 9, 2013). "El Campo: An Oasis in Early Marin". Annie T Kent California Room. Marin County Free Library.
^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 116.

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[gnis-1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: El Campo, California

[CGN-2] Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 628. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

[3] Thompson, Laurie (August 9, 2013). "El Campo: An Oasis in Early Marin". Annie T Kent California Room. Marin County Free Library.

[4] Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 116.

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El Campo
Private recreational facility
El Campo Location in California Show map of California El Campo El Campo (the United States) Show map of the United States
Coordinates: 37°53′51″N 122°27′55″W / 37.89750°N 122.46528°W / 37.89750; -122.46528
Country	United States
State	California
County	Marin County
Elevation ^[1]	56 ft (17 m)