Marconi (formerly called Fisherman's) is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Marin County Marin County ( ) is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 262,231. Its county seat and largest city is San Rafael. Marin County is ac ...

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

. It is located on the northeast shore of

Tomales Bay Tomales Bay is a long, narrow inlet of the Pacific Ocean in Marin County in northern California in the United States. Geography Tomales Bay is approximately long and averages nearly wide, with relatively shallow depths averaging 18 ft, eff ...

, about south-southeast of the village of Tomales, at an elevation of about above

sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an mean, average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal Body of water, bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical ...

. Marconi is located in the area of the town of

Marshall, California Marshall is an unincorporated community in Marin County, California. It is located on the northeast shore of Tomales Bay south of Tomales, at an elevation of . Marshall is located on the east shore of Tomales Bay. It has a population that ...

. The inhabitants of an old Native American settlement called "Fisherman's" later shipped

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from here via

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. Then, in 1913, the Marconi Wireless Company bought this site to establish a transpacific

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station. The site was taken over by the federal government, who eventually released it to

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ownership. In the 1960s the facility was renovated to become a residential hotel, but it soon became an addiction-recovery facility operated by the

Synanon Synanon, originally known as Tender Loving Care, was a new religious movement founded in 1958 by Charles E. "Chuck" Dederich Sr. in Santa Monica, California, United States. Originally established as a drug rehabilitation program, Synanon develop ...

cult. The

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system took over the site in the 1980s, and now operates it as the

Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park Tomales Bay is a long, narrow inlet of the Pacific Ocean in Marin County in northern California in the United States. Geography Tomales Bay is approximately long and averages nearly wide, with relatively shallow depths averaging 18 ft, eff ...

. The conference center is planned to be restored to a functioning hotel by late 2024.

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Marconi Conference Center SHP
Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Marin County, California Populated coastal places in California {{MarinCountyCA-geo-stub

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