Who owned a chicken farm on Montford?
Harry Okubara was five years old when he came to the US from Japan in 1891. His wife Tora came at age ten in 1899. Sometime between 1910 and 1920 they acquired 2-1/4 acres on Montford where they raised chickens and sold eggs. Their son was born in 1916. Harry took an annual trip home to Japan. One year he brought back two girls whom he said were his daughters. The children attended the new school which had opened in 1920 right across the street. In 1942, the family was sent off to a Japanese internment camp. They returned after the war. Their descendants still live on Cherry Blossom Lane. When was a freeway through Homestead proposed? The 1967 West Marin General Plan adopted by the Marin County Board of Supervisors called for urban development for 150,000 people. Highway 1 would become a coastal freeway connected to the Golden Gate Bridge by a freeway through Homestead Valley. Environmentalists succeeded in preventing construction of an aqueduct to supply Russian River water to the are
