Join us for the 2021 walking tour season, exploring historic downtown Napa and over a dozen landmarks. Who designed them? How has it changed? Who chose to work here and why? Guided by NCHS docents, our tours will answer these questions and more. Our supplied headsets allow participants to clearly hear every word. Starting at [...]
AttendNOTICE: THIS TOUR HAS BEEN POSTPONED. We are hoping to host this tour on a future date and we will announce as soon as possible when we are able to offer this tour again. Thank you for your understanding. The historic Yountville Cemetery, also called the George C. Yount Pioneer Cemetery, rests on land set [...]
AttendJoin Janna Waldinger for a virtual presentation: The gift of photography in capturing history and personal experiences. Janna is a third-generation photographer and co-owner with Lowell Downey of Art & Clarity fine photography based in Napa since 1994. “I had the good fortune to work side by side with my father at a very young [...]
AttendNCHS Members and Guests are invited to join us at the Goodman Library the evening of October 7th for an exclusive first look at our new Fall 2021 Exhibit, Wine: Our Story. Featuring fifty present-day wineries from around the Napa Valley, historic wine-industry equipment and objects, and photographs from the NCHS collection as well as from [...]
AttendWinemaking is an economic juggernaut of the Napa Valley. Thanks to climate, soil and winemaker expertise, the Valley produces world renowned wines. We do not know if the Valley's first people cultivated grapes, but we know that one of the first crops George Yount planted in 1836 was a personal vineyard. Today's 500 plus Napa [...]
AttendBuy your tickets for this exciting presentation today! Join us on October 21st at 7pm as we officially start our Fall 2021 Virtual Presentation series, highlighting the theme of our new exhibit, Wine: Our Story. Dane Kuta offers an expert's perspective on the history of Napa Valley's wine industry, as an experienced instructor and wine [...]
AttendBuy tickets today for our special October Tulocay Cemetery Tour on October 31st! Tulocay Cemetery, founded 1859 on 48.8 acres donated by Don Cayetano Juarez, is a testament to the long and diverse history of Napa. Our tour of the oldest parts of the cemetery begins at the historic Tulocay Cemetery office just inside the [...]
AttendNapa County Historical Society has for years collected recordings of people’s remembrances. Recently through a California Revealed Grant and support from Community Projects, we have launched Echoes of Napa Valley, as a way to highlight and collect people’s stories in their own voice. This month we will begin actively collecting stories that you would [...]
AttendHe’s the man who knew everyone, and no one knows now. He emerges as a footnote or a passing reference in most of the major works on the western movement to California and his life intertwined with many of the best known pioneers—Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, Mariano Vallejo, and John Bidwell--to cross the plains [...]
AttendNCHS presents our January guest speaker virtual presentation via Zoom, offering a broad look at how Napa Valley's historic industries were shaped by migrants from outside of California. The wine industry in Missouri was started by German immigrants who had never made wine before in their lives. The industry took off: by 1859 there were [...]
AttendIn preparation for Women's History month in March, we are proud to announce this virtual panel discussion with some of the contributors to the 2018 book, A Rumbling of Women: Napa Feminists 1970-1990. Panelists will discuss their involvement with the book and their experiences with the Women's Movement. There will be a brief Q&A for questions from [...]
AttendWe are pleased to announce a virtual screening of From Toisan Rice Field to Napa Grape Field, a documentary on winemaker and vineyard owner Dr. Paul Gee's life and legacy. Paul Gee and his family came to Napa in 1980 and planted their vineyard in the Pinot Noir grapes suitable to the area. Gee was [...]
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