Little Reed Dairy, which operated across the street from here from circa 1888 to 1954, was like the other three Tiburon dairies in being a complete working community. The ranch hands were mostly bachelors living in bunkhouses, and for the few families there was work for all, with women cooking meals, cleaning, and doing laundry, and children handling chores before and after school. Many children attended the first Reed School, which operated from 1874 to 1921 near Blackie’s Pasture. In 1955 the hay barn was torn down and the milking barn was refurbished for use as the sales office of a new subdivision, Del Mar Estates, and at that time the stone post and split rail fence was added. The following year the Reed Union School District purchased the school site and used the building as its district office. Del Mar School initially opened in October 1961 and was fully completed in May 1964.