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African American History, California History, People

Mary Ellen Pleasant

Posted on August 5, 2015April 14, 2023 by admin
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Aug

On August 19, Mary Ellen Pleasant was born. Her birth year is disputed, and while most sources say 1814, her grave in Napa denotes 1812.  She lived into her 90s, […]

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African American History, Ask A Librarian, California History, Napa, St Helena

Ask a Librarian: The KKK in Napa

Posted on August 1, 2015May 13, 2020 by admin
01
Aug

Is it true that there were KKK rallies in Napa? The Ku Klux Klan saw a great resurgence after its reestablishment in 1915, heralded in part by D. W. Griffith’s […]

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Posted in African American History, Ask A Librarian, California History, Napa, St Helena
African American History, Asian-American History, California History, Calistoga, Wine and Viticulture

Pruneville

Posted on August 1, 2015August 6, 2015 by admin
01
Aug

Horace Lockwood Gibbs was well known in his day. Born in New York about 1851, Horace married Wisconsin native Nora P. his same age. In 1881, Gibbs had a vineyard […]

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Posted in African American History, Asian-American History, California History, Calistoga, Wine and Viticulture
African American History, California History, Napa

Port Chicago Mutiny

Posted on July 30, 2015May 13, 2020 by admin
30
Jul

The Port Chicago explosion on July 17, 1944, was the tragic result of ordering undertrained men into “manifestly unsafe working conditions at the base where only blacks were assigned the […]

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California History, Latino and Hispanic History, People, Tidings

Remembering Salvador Vallejo

Posted on July 28, 2015August 6, 2015 by admin
28
Jul

This is an excerpt of an article written by Nancy Brennan, local historian known as “The Cemetery Lady” for her Tulocay Cemetery Tour. It was first published in the Vol. […]

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Posted in California History, Latino and Hispanic History, People, Tidings
Advocacy, NCHS Info

Protect Your History!

Posted on July 21, 2015May 13, 2020 by admin

Congress is drafting a new Copyright Act, and while there is no official bill yet, if the proposals made by the US Copyright Office are put into effect it could […]

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Posted in Advocacy, NCHS Info
Ask A Librarian, California History, People, St Helena

Ask A Librarian: Kearney Street

Posted on July 18, 2015August 6, 2015 by admin
18
Jul

Where did Kearney Street in St. Helena get its name? Kearney Street in St. Helena, California, is one of the older streets in the city. Although it contains mostly modest […]

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Posted in Ask A Librarian, California History, People, St Helena
Found It In The Archives, Yountville

Yountville Development Flyer

Posted on July 16, 2015April 17, 2025 by admin

During a research request on Yountville during its Incorporation period in the 1960s, this flyer was uncovered. There is no date, but it appears to be from the 1980s or […]

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Found It In The Archives, Napa

Napa Redevelopment, 1974

Posted on July 16, 2015July 16, 2015 by admin
16
Jul

One of our volunteers came across this intriguing brochure while organizing our ephemera files, and it was just too cool not to share. The brochure is from the volume 2, […]

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Posted in Found It In The Archives, Napa
In The News, Pope Valley

Fire in Pope Valley!

Posted on June 25, 2015June 25, 2015 by admin
25
Jun

On the afternoon of June 9, 2015, a fire kicked up in Pope Valley. It raged on the hill above and around the Henry Haus Blacksmith Shop, a historic building […]

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