NCHS 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 [...]
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Winemaking 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 [...]
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Buy 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 [...]
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Buy 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 [...]
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He’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 [...]
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NCHS 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 [...]
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In 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 [...]
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We 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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Members are invited to join us for the premiere of our Spring 2022 exhibit, News, The Story of Our Lives. Stories, events, editorials, advertisements, and sports have filled the printed pages and now digital frames for decades chronicling life in the Napa Valley. This exhibit explores how newspapers like the Napa Valley Register brought news to Napa [...]
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Join us for a virtual presentation by author Ed Davis, as he discusses his historical novel The Last Professional, the story of a young man riding the rails and fleeing a troubled past at the end of the 20th century. We are nearing the end of our 2021-2022 Virtual Presentations series, so you won't want to [...]
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Members and their guests are invited to the 74th Annual Members Meeting at the historic Cameo Cinema in St. Helena, Saturday March 14th, 2022 at 11am. This year's guest speaker is Bo Barrett, winemaker and CEO of Chateau Montelena Winery, in conversation with moderator Hugh Davies, president of Schramsberg and Davies Vineyards. Members can reserve [...]
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