In 1898, Edna Cotrel pooled her resources with nine other women to nab the last remaining lot on Inverness’s bluff overlooking Tomales Bay. Two were Edna’s sisters, Amy and Lucy, and most were schoolteachers from San Francisco. Over the course of several summers, they labored alongside one anoth

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