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Drakes Bay

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Drakes Bay Historic and Archaeological District is a National Historic Landmark associated with the 1579 landing of Francis Drake, the 1595 landing of Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeño and the wreck of the San Augustín, and the native Coast Miwok people who received the Europeans and whose relations with them were among the first recorded between Native peoples and Europeans in the western United States.
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