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Programs & Events

Ghostly Fun in Historic Downtown Napa

Posted on November 3, 2014May 13, 2020 by Alexandria Brown
03
Nov

This past Saturday, on the evening of All Saints Day – aka the Day of the Dead – Napa County Historical Society held its first ever Downtown Napa Ghost Tour. […]

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Book launch for “Napa State Hospital” by Patricia Prestinary

Posted on September 29, 2014July 31, 2015 by admin
29
Sep

This past Saturday, NCHS hosted the book launch for the debut book by Patricia Prestinary, Napa State Hospital. The event, relocated to Silo’s because of the earthquake damage to the […]

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Found It In The Archives

This Week in History: August 4-10

Posted on August 5, 2014July 31, 2015 by Alexandria Brown
05
Aug

Monday, August 6, 1945 At 8:15am Japan time, the United States dropped an atomic weapon on Hiroshima. Three days later, Nagasaki was also bombed. Nearly 200,000 people were killed during […]

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Asian-American History, Ask A Librarian, California History

Finding Fact in Fiction

Posted on July 30, 2014July 31, 2015 by Alexandria Brown

I heard we had a Japanese Internment Camp in Napa.  Is that true? Over the years many patrons have come to Napa County Historical Society asking about a rumored Japanese […]

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People, Pope Valley, Tidings

“Going to Aetna Springs: Dr. Richards Lyon Remembers”

Posted on July 16, 2014July 31, 2015 by Alexandria Brown

The Summer 2013 Tidings is another installment of Dr. Felicia Shinnamon’s fascinating oral histories on Pope Valley. The following is an excerpt of that oral history. To get your copy […]

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Interns, Interns, Interns!

Posted on July 10, 2014August 4, 2015 by Alexandria Brown
10
Jul

Summer means vacation time for many people, but here at Napa County Historical Society it means new interns. This summer we brought on five (!) interns. Three are students  working […]

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Found It In The Archives

Fourth of July

Posted on July 3, 2014July 31, 2015 by Alexandria Brown
03
Jul

This Independence Day, celebrate Napa County’s history with this cool slideshow of images from the NCHS archives. See how Napans way back when celebrated the Fourth of July!

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Found It In The Archives

Cupid’s Book

Posted on June 13, 2014July 31, 2015 by Nancy Levenberg
13
Jun

While poking around the Napa County Historical Society Library one day, I came across our small but exceptionally unusual collection of cookbooks. The one that immediately drew my eye is […]

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Ask A Librarian, Napa

Napa or Nappa?

Posted on May 28, 2014July 16, 2015 by Alexandria Brown

What does Napa mean? I’ve heard more than a dozen different origin theories for Nappa, the town’s original name, but most claim the word derived from a Wappo or Patwin […]

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Scavenger Hunts

Posted on May 16, 2014August 4, 2015 by Alexandria Brown

Our mission here at Napa County Historical Society is to “keep history alive.”  The most obvious way we do that is through our research library and archives, where we preserve, […]

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