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Black Cedar performs live in this historic work of architectural charm. Wildflowers surround Old St. Hilary’s, Tiburon’s iconic hillside landmark, which was originally a mission church named for St. Hilaire, Bishop of Poitiers. The heirs of John Reed—who held title to El Rancho Corte Madera del Presidio, the Mexican land grant that included the Tiburon Peninsula—deeded the one-quarter acre site for $2 to the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which built the church as a place of worship for local railroad workers in 1888. The John Thomas Howell Wildflower Preserve, adjacent to Old St. Hilary’s Landmark, is home to several rare plants, including the Tiburon paintbrush, Tiburon buckwheat, Marin dwarf flax and the black jewel flower, which exists only in serpentine on the tip of the Tiburon Peninsula.