Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Marin County preserves about 2,700 acres of redwood forest and grassland, including roughly 600 acres of old-growth forest recognized in part by the Old-Growth Forest Network. Named for Samuel Penfield Taylor, it reflects both natural and human history. Taylor used Gold Rush earnings to buy land along Lagunitas Creek, built the Pioneer Paper Mill in 1856 as the first paper mill on the Pacific Coast, and later developed Camp Taylor Resort after the railroad arrived in the 1870s. The resort drew San Franciscans by rail and ferry, and the property later passed to California in 1945 before efforts helped keep the park open in 2011.