Book Overview
Over the past decade, the town of Yountville has received worldwide recognition as a tourist destination specializing in fine wine, luxurious hotel and spa accommodations, and award-winning restaurants. In fact, these achievements and accolades have earned it the name "Heart of the Napa Valley." Longtime residents, however, realize that Yountville's temperate weather, rich soils, and serene environs have been attracting visitors to the area not for decades but rather for thousands of years. The original indigenous residents called the surrounding area Caymus and constructed their homes out of willow and tule. Later the village of Caymus became known as Sebastopol, a name used by mountain man George C. Yount, the first American settler to receive a Mexican land grant. Yount's Kentucky-style blockhouse provided a welcome mat for many of California's early pioneers. He is also credited with planting some of the first grapevines in the Napa Valley. Upon his death in 1865, local residents wanted to honor the contribution of Yount and changed the name from Sebastopol to Yountville.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0738569658
ISBN13:9780738569659
Release Date:April 2009
Publisher:Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Length:128 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
Yountville history
Published by walter Ko , 1 year ago
This is a historic tour back in time on this small town with a good text and many old pictures. It is a who is who what is what how this California town in Napa Valley developed with the pioneers. It is only on p.37 that it mentioned a small Chinatown here. Nothing on the site and life of Chinese in this town. It is a book of old and new, history and modern. The last chapter keeps reader update on the latest development. A recent visit to this town for the Sharpsteen Museum and see the window exhibit of small scale Chinatown with lightings and moving train after a twenty five cent deposit.
It is a good history guide for Yountville for arm chair tourist.
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