Friday, July 12: 11am - 12:30pm Sunday, July 14: 3pm - 4:30pm 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 [...]
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Friday, June 14: 11am - 12:30pm Sunday, June 16: 3pm - 4:30pm 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 [...]
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Event Has Been Cancelled Dr. Mark Gudgel joins us on Sunday, June 9th at 4:30pm at for a guest presentation on his recent book, The Rise of Napa Valley Wineries: How the Judgment of Paris Put California Wine on the Map. This is an in-person event held at the Goodman Library in Downtown Napa (1219 [...]
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Friday, May 24: 11am - 12:30pm Sunday, May 26: 3pm - 4:30pm 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 [...]
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to plan and curate a successful exhibit? Our Executive Director Sheli Smith has five decades of exhibit curation experience and has put forward Napa County Historical Society's seven most-recent exhibits, since 2020. Joined by NCHS research librarian Kelly O'Connor, this discussion examines the creative process and execution of [...]
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Our Fall 2023 Exhibit, A City of Immigrants: An American Story explores the many waves of immigration into the valley over a hundred years, from 1820 to 1920. The waves of immigration over the centuries created a rich tapestry of ethnicities and cultural blending. Every ethnicity has left its stamp on the Valley whether or [...]
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