Corte Madera for kids
The Place Where Wood Is Cut. A true story near Corte Madera, CA, told for kids 3-12.
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We're driving through Corte Madera. That's a Spanish name, and it means "the place where wood is cut". A long time ago, Spanish soldiers lived in a fort across the bay in San Francisco, called the Presidio. They needed wood for their cooking fires and for building.
And there weren't many trees over there! So they rowed across the bay and came here to cut wood for their fires and for building. Chop, chop, chop! That's how a whole town got its name.
If you had to name a town after something you do, what would it be? The place where kids eat pancakes?
Fun facts
- Corte de Madera del Presidio means 'the place where wood is cut for the Presidio'.
- Soldiers from San Francisco's Presidio gathered wood here.
For grown-ups
Written by the Tumbly team, then checked claim by claim against the sources below before it was published; stories that don't pass stay off the app and this site. Narration is pre-recorded, and nothing you do on this page is tied to your kids.
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Town and county names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).