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The land was originally owned by William Kent, the local businessman who later became U.S. Congressman and his wife Elizabeth Thacher Kent. They had purchased this one of few old-growth redwood forests remained along the pacific costal line to protect the trees. Later, they left the land to the federal government for further protection of redwoods and president Theodore Roosevelt acclaimed it a national monument in 1908.
Muir Woods and lands of the surrounding canyon were originally part of native Indian Coast Miwok people's homeland before Europeans established their settlement at peninsula in the nineteenth century. [1] Even though there is just little evidence that show it was their habitat, some archaeological remains show that the forest provided some degree of means of subsistence to Coast Miwok people. [1]
