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Yountville, one of the smallest towns in California's Napa Valley, caters to visitors by offering fine inns, restaurants and shopping. Yountville is also where the Veterans Home of California and the Napa Valley Museum are located.
Yountville has a population of about 3,500 and four commercial plazas — Beard Plaza, Vintage 1870, Washington Square, and Whistlestop Center.
Widely recognized restaurants in Yountville include — The French Laundry, Bouchon, Brix Restaurant, the Restaurant at Domaine Chandon, Napa Valley Grille, Bistro Jeanty, Piatti Ristorante, Pacific Blues Cafe and Bocconcini Cantinetta.
Follow the links in left hand column to view panoramas and pictures of the wineries and landscape around Yountville. Scroll down for a map of the Napa Valley, wine tours and Yountville history. Use the blue column links, right side, to visit other areas in the wine country or to tour San Francisco.
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A Brief History of Yountville in the Napa Valley
General Mariano Vallejo granted 11,814 acres of land — Rancho Caymus, in the area now known as Yountville, to George Calvert Yount in 1836. By 1837 Yount had built an adobe house, and had also constructed grist and saw mills by 1845. George Calvert Yount was a trapper, rancher, and miller. Born in North Carolina in 1794, he died at Yountville in 1865. Yount is thought to be the first person to plant vineyards in the Napa Valley.
In 1870 Gottlieb Groezinger–a produce and fish merchant from San Francisco – built what was at that time the largest winery in the Napa Valley. Today his original winery, distillery and wine cellar are a complex of upscale specialty shops, galleries and restaurants known as Vintage 1870.
The Veterans Home of California in Yountville was founded in 1884 and is operated by the State of California, Department of Veterans Affairs. Situated on 500 acres with capacity for 1,125 veterans, the Veterans Home features complete health care coverage, all meals and use of numerous recreational facilities including a 9 hole golf course.
The trees lining the entrance road along California Drive — partially visible in the photo of the Napa Valley Museum — were a gift from the Treasure Island World's Fair of 1939-40 in San Francisco.
The Napa Valley Museum — a multimedia integration of science, agriculture, geology, history, physiology and technology — is located at the end of California Drive next to the California Veterans Home in Yountville. Permanent exhibits include The Land and People of the Napa Valley and California Wine: The Science of an Art.
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