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Nathan Coombs, Napa’s Founder

March 27, 2021 kuletosm

NATHAN COOMBS (1826-1877), founder of the city of Napa, began pioneering as a teenager and managed to participate in the…

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Posted in: 19th Century Napa Valley, Californio Napa and Alta California Filed under: Bear Flag, Berryessa, California history, Californio history, Napa, Napa Valley history, Nathan Coombs, Rancho Entre Napa, Rancho Napa, Rancho Tulucay

1830s California’s Mission Dolores remembered

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Enjoying sailing the ocean that is the Internet Archive and Google Books today and came across this 1889 memoir of…

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Posted in: 19th Century Napa Valley, Californio Napa and Alta California, Native Peoples of Napa Valley Filed under: California history, Californio history, Mission Dolores, San Francisco history, wine history

Napa Valley and the new Interactive Census Map

March 22, 2021 kuletosm

Anyone who’s ever researched family history knows the value of the US Census. But the key political use of the…

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Posted in: 20th Century Napa Valley, 21st Century Napa Valley Filed under: Census, Coombs, Napa, Napa County, Napa Valley, Redistricting, St Helena

Happy Birthday to the St Helena Star!

September 24, 2018 kuletosm

Happy birthday–September 25, 1874–to the St Helena Star weekly newspaper, one of the oldest papers in California still publishing. (Downieville’s…

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Posted in: 19th Century Napa Valley

1885 4th of July in St. Helena

July 3, 2017 kuletosm

Parades! Fireworks! Flags! Picnics! Ice Cream! Lots of local wine! No doubt there’s a lot we’d recognize today in Independence…

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Posted in: 19th Century Napa Valley Filed under: 1880s history, 4th of July, California history, Fourth of July, Independence Day, Napa Valley, Napa Valley history, Saint Helena, St. Helena

1968 – When the Ag Preserve was breaking news

June 27, 2017 kuletosm

Wow! Ready to time travel over half a century back to 1968 Napa Valley? Complete with aerial views, courtesy of…

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Posted in: 20th Century Napa Valley Filed under: Ag Preserve, Napa Valley, preventing urban sprawl, saving open space, wine history, zoning ordinances

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