Marin County Parks 50th Anniversary Quiz: Halloween

What sensational homicide made Marin newspaper headlines in 1877?

The drowned body of a real estate magnate was found washed up at Black Point after he had cheated his business partners.

Carl Peter Rush was shot in his field, leaving a sizable fortune. His wife was suspected but never convicted.

Several guests were poisoned with arsenic at an Old St. Hilary’s picnic, 25-year-old playboy John Blakely was convicted after police discovered his wealthy family had disinherited him.

Which open space preserves have cemeteries?

Bothin Marsh and Mount Burdell

Loma Alta and Little Mountain

Rush Creek and Lucas Valley

Which County preserve is said to be haunted by the ghost of a train engineer who grieves for his lost daughter?

Bothin Marsh Preserve

White HIll Preserve

Cascade Canyon Preserve

What apparition has been reported roaming the halls of the Marin Headlands Hostel, originally an infirmary built in 1907?

A young man in a top hat crying for his mother

A middle-aged woman in a Victorian dress, calling out the name of her husband

A young girl clutching a doll, looking for her friends

What happened to Miwok headman Camilo Ynitia after he sold Olompali Rancho?

Robbers killed him for the money.

His own tribespeople punished him for selling the land.

He hid the gold in Olompali, where it remains to this day.

It remains a mystery.

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