NATHAN COOMBS (1826-1877), founder of the city of Napa, began pioneering as a teenager and managed to participate in the…
Enjoying sailing the ocean that is the Internet Archive and Google Books today and came across this 1889 memoir of…
Anyone who’s ever researched family history knows the value of the US Census. But the key political use of the…
Happy birthday–September 25, 1874–to the St Helena Star weekly newspaper, one of the oldest papers in California still publishing. (Downieville’s…
Parades! Fireworks! Flags! Picnics! Ice Cream! Lots of local wine! No doubt there’s a lot we’d recognize today in Independence…
Wow! Ready to time travel over half a century back to 1968 Napa Valley? Complete with aerial views, courtesy of…