Our 90-minute walking tours highlight over fifteen local landmarks along First Street, Main Street, and Third Street. We will walk partially along the River Walk and loop around some of the legendary businesses and buildings of historic downtown. Visitors and locals alike are sure to learn something new about the colorful people and places of [...]
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NCHS is partnering with The Forge - Napa for a fundraiser to support the Historical Society. Dine, enjoy, and support Heritage Tourism! Enjoy handcrafted pizza, appetizers, sandwiches and salads while contributing to local history! How does this work? A percentage of your dinner bill is donated to NCHS. Visit https://www.theforgepizza.com/ for hours, menu, and reservations. Please present [...]
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Don’t miss our new season of Tulocay Cemetery tours! Tulocay Cemetery, founded 1859 on 48.8 acres donated by Don Cayetano Juarez, is a testament to the long and diverse history of Napa. The tour is 90-minutes long and includes many famous highlights with a focus on the storied people who have made Napa what it [...]
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Don’t miss our new season of Tulocay Cemetery tours! Tulocay Cemetery, founded 1859 on 48.8 acres donated by Don Cayetano Juarez, is a testament to the long and diverse history of Napa. The tour is 90-minutes long and includes many famous highlights with a focus on the storied people who have made Napa what it [...]
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Want to get a head start on the holidays, and beat the rush to get tickets? Join us for a Napa County Historical FUNdraiser, Wednesday November 30th, at the Lucky Penny Theater in Napa. We invite you to a private showing of Lucky Penny's "A Napa Valley Christmas Carol," a Napa spin on the Holiday [...]
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We are honored to host John McCormick as he presents his new book in the History Press series, Chinese in Napa Valley: The Forgotten Community that Built Wine Country, in conversation with Jack Jue, Jr., family historian and author of the blog "Jue Joe Clan History." This guest lecture will be hybrid, held both in-person [...]
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Jennifer Huffman of the Napa Register joins us to present her research on Shipyard Acres, culminating her own discoveries with the work of Shirley Fore, including photographs, archives, and personal stories of what it was like to live at Shipyard Acres during the 1940s. Although not much remains of the Shipyard Acres community today, it [...]
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Shouting Down the Wind: Napa's Pioneering Women is a look at two centuries of women who have changed Napa's cultural landscape. Pioneering women are fierce and excel in every generation in the Valley. They have stepped up to protect their families and help communities thrive, taken on Hurculean tasks and in a number of cases [...]
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Join us for a very special 75th Anniversary Celebration at our Annual Meeting, Saturday May 13th, 2023. Members and their guests are invited to RSVP to attend in-person at the historic Napa Opera House, or live via Zoom. This is a free event offered once a year on the anniversary of NCHS's founding in May [...]
AttendWalking tours are back for the summer! We start our season with our popular tour of Tulocay Cemetery, featuring over a dozen landmarks around the cemetery and the stories of people who shaped Napa's history, going as far back as the family who helped found the cemetery itself. Wind through this peaceful, historic cemetery with [...]
AttendWalking tours are back for the summer! We start our season with our popular tour of Tulocay Cemetery, featuring over a dozen landmarks around the cemetery and the stories of people who shaped Napa's history, going as far back as the family who helped found the cemetery itself. Wind through this peaceful, historic cemetery with [...]
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Our 90-minute walking tours highlight over fifteen local landmarks along First Street, Main Street, and Third Street. We will walk partially along the River Walk and loop around some of the legendary businesses and buildings of historic downtown. Visitors and locals alike are sure to learn something new about the colorful people and places of [...]
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