Description: The Birthplace of Wine in the Napa Valley
Drawing of Hugh Glass. Source unknown. Yount heard the tale of Glass’s life from the man himself. While Yount was obviously taken with the wildness of Glass’s exploits, he no doubt was most taken with his sense of shared spirit: “He could be relied upon - & no man would fly more swiftly, nor contribute more freely to the relief of a suffering fellow man
Reproduced from The California Historical Society, pgs. 5-7 and 53-55 from their 1923 publication of George C. Yount’s account of his life and travels, as told to Reverend Orange Clark.
Yount’s blockhouse and mill were on opposite sides of the Napa River, where it’s course unwinds from the base of a prominent hill - the Yountville Butte - just north of the original 6 block town of Yountville - and a still existant Indian burial ground. The site is marked by a large stone and plaque. The blockhouse came down in 1870. East across the valley, north of Rector Creek, is said the be the site of Yount’s later adobe house. A blockhouse is a centuries old type of military fortification, sometimes