Talk:Marin Creek

Sources

Here are more I found: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Jfire (talk) 21:44, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Intrigued by the map which shows the historical path of the creek passing more or less directly underneath my house, I ventured down to UC Village today to check out the daylighted portions. It's not much to see, frankly, and being behind chain link fences the entire daylighted length, very difficult to get decent pictures. Residents of UC Village or persons with access to the UC-owned Gill Tract could probably get better pictures. The creek itself is about a foot to a foot and a half wide, stagnant or slow moving, and as you might expect for an urban stream, has accumulated a fair amount of garbage. Kind of sad really... Jfire (talk) 00:32, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

thank you so much for taking the picture!W-i-k-i-l-o-v-e-r-1-7 (talk) 10:12, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Name

I see someone removed the mention of the origin of the name for lack of a reference source. Well, it IS named for Marin Avenue as anyone who has lived in Berkeley for a long time knows, but yeah, no source comes up online. It seems pretty obvious, but okay. Let's find a source and be done with it. The creek had no apparent name on any old maps, and the street did not receive its name until the early 1900s when they named a bunch of streets in North Berkeley for California counties. The alternate name for Lower Marin---Village Creek---is a later common usage from the early 1940s when the village was constructed for WW2. Tmangray (talk) 00:02, 26 January 2009 (UTC)