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Napa Valley is most famous for its wine.Napa County is a county located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. As of 2000 the population is 124,279. The county seat is Napa.
Napa County is world famous for its wine industry, leaping to the first rank of wine regions (much to the indignation of traditionalist vintners in France and Italy) in the 1960s. The combination of natural beauty, pleasant Mediterranean climate, and proximity to San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento has made it into one of the United States' most desirable areas in which to live. However, its citizens are famous for their resistance to suburban development, with the result that 33 of California's 58 counties--including many that are far from major urban areas--are more populous. The relative poverty of the city of Napa, which houses most of the Latino migrant workers who tend and harvest the county's vineyards, produces a significant downward bias on its apparent wealth: estates in the county, particularly those with views of San Pablo Bay, have been known to sell for nearly ten million dollars.
The Napa wine country was the inspiration for the fictional Tuscany Valley on the nighttime soap operaTIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline "Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon". A soap opera or daytime serial is an ongoing, episodic wo Falcon CrestFalcon Crest was an American primetime television soap opera created by producer Earl Hamner Jr. with the help of CBS in production. Falcon Crest aired 227 episodes from 1981 to 1990. It starred Oscar winner Jane Wyman as Angela Channing, a despotic woman.
1 History
Napa County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850Events January 4 The first American ice-skating club is formed ( Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). January 29 Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the United States Congress February 28 University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah March 7 United at the time of statehood. Parts of the county's territory were given to Lake CountyLake County is a county located in north central California, north of the San Francisco Bay Area. It takes its name from Clear Lake, the dominant geographic feature in the county. As of 2000 the population was 58,309. The county seat is Lakeport. History in 18611861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 1 Benito Juarez captures Mexico City January 2 Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I January 3 American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United.
The word napa is of Native AmericanNative Americans (also Indians Aboriginal Peoples American Indians First Nations Alaskan Natives or Indigenous Peoples of America are the indigenous inhabitants of Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. This term compri derivation and has been variously translated as " grizzly bear," "house," "motherland" or "fish." Of the many explanations of the names's origin, the most plausible seems to be that it is derived from the Patwin word napo meaning house.
2 Geography
According to the U.S. Census BureauThe United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is defined in the Constitution of the United States, which directs that the population be enumerated at least once every te, the county has a total area of 2,042 km˛ (788 mi˛). 1,952 km˛ (754 mi˛) of it is land and 89 km˛ (35 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 4.38% water.
