Martinez, California
Contra Costa County · Population 37,287 · Card no. 10238
The Contra Costa County seat on the Carquinez Strait, where John Muir lived and where the martini may have been invented.
- Muir's house is a national historic site and he wrote much of his later work there.
- The town claims the martini originated with a gold miner's drink order.
- Joe DiMaggio was born here.
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