For the park grand opening on April 2, 1891, the Marin Journal reported, The California Schuetzen Club is an old, widely known, wealthy and influential association, embracing in its membership the best elements of the German-American population on this coast The Club has thirty-seven acres of land, embracing a charming variety of hill and flat. The elevated part is mostly sheltered with pleasant shade trees and covered with a rich carpet of grass and wild flowers, and from its crest, the eye commands panoramas of widely varying and exceedingly beautiful scenery.
On the level toward San Rafael have been constructed the buildings of the association a dance pavilion 80x110, a dining salon and cuisine, bowling alleys, etc., etc., and the most complete and perfect rifle gallery in the country. The facilities included a sprinting track an eighth of a mile long."
The Tocsin reported that the Directors and their friends arrived on the 11:20 train from San Francisco and at 1 o'clock the Stars and Stripes were hoisted on all the buildings to signify that the Club had taken possession of its new quarters With the champagne, which flowed like a mountain stream in winter, came many toasts, which were responded to appropriately and enthusiastically.
In just one week, the park was booked for picnics for the whole season. On October 15, 1891 the Marin Journal reported that the Third Regiment camped last Saturday at Schuetzen Park and had a merry time. Their tents occupied a large part of the capacious park and made it a scene of life, beauty and military activity very attractive to outsiders.
The November 18, 1895, the San Francisco Call reported on Turkey Day: The early trains to San Rafael brought the best crowds of the season. The firing began about 10 o'clock in all of the stalls with tremendous tumult Everyone got a turkey, no matter what score he registered quite a number of the ladies of the California Schuetzen Club were at the range and shot for monthly medals.�
Throngs of visitors filled the park on opening day in April, 1898. The Marin Journal noted that of the 20,000 invitations sent, over 7,000 people attended, a few conducted themselves in a disorderly manner, and only one was locked up.
The facilities were rented to other organizations for a variety of events including the annual picnic of the Journeymen Butchers' Protective and Benevolent Association of San Francisco and the thirty-first anniversary of the Retail Grocers' Protective Union.
Due to intense anti-German sentiment during World War I, Schuetzen was dropped from the park�s name and the sport lost popularity. Jacoby died in 1922 and did not live to see his park destroyed by fire one year later.