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…
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…