What is now the city of Tiburon was part of the inheritance of Hilarita, daughter of John Reed and his wife Hilaria Sánchez Reed. In 1872 she married Dr. Benjamin F. Lyford, a Civil War surgeon who had arrived in San Francisco in 1866. He was interested in cleanliness and sanitation and was apparently an expert embalmer as well. The Lyfords planned to create a health resort to be called Hygeia, after the goddess of health. The plan never materialized. In 1884 a terminal where railroad passengers could board a ferry for San Francisco created the beginning of Tiburon, and by 1888 new houses were being built. The picturesque Lyford home, shown here, at 376 Greenwood Beach Road has been moved from an earlier site and is open to the public on a limited basis.