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Napa, CA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Napa a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Napa Home page. The Napa Home page provides as much information as possible on Napa. Knowing Napa’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Napa’s Home page, you will also find Napa’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Napa has a population of 85372. 48.9% of Napa’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.1 are female. 49.9% of Napa is married and 58.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $642,854, and the average rent is $1,779. Household median income in Napa is $85,953, and the individual median income is $38,395. Napa’s Ethnic is the following: White(75.6%), Hispanic(39.9%), Other(13.7%), Multiple(6.6%), Asian(2.8%), Black(0.7%), Native(0.6%), Pacific(0.1%).
Napa had become the primary business and economic center for the Napa Valley by the dawn of the 20th century. The San Francisco, Napa and Calistoga Railway was established in 1905 for passenger and freight service. The railroad carried passengers from ferry boats in Vallejo to stops in Napa and other locations in the valley.As agricultural and wine interests developed north of the city limits, much of the light industry, banking, commercial and retail activity in the county evolved within the city of Napa and in earlier times along the Napa River through the historic downtown.
Napa Glove Factory was established in 1903 and was the largest plant of its kind west of Chicago. Edwin Pridham and Peter L. Jensen invented the moving-coil loudspeaker in 1915 in their Napa workshop while working on an improvement for the telephone receiver. Pridham and Jensen went on to found the Magnavox Company in 1917.
In the late 19th century and early 20th century Napa was known for having a sizable red-light district, with brothels primarily concentrated on and around Clinton Street.Following studies made by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1930-40s, the U.S. Congress authorized channel improvements on Napa River and construction of a dam on Conn Creek as part of the Flood Control Act of 1944, though funding was never approved.
The City of Napa funded and built the dam in order to create the water conservation reservoir Lake Hennessey in 1948, however flooding continued to be a problem. The 1986 Napa River flood revived public interest in finding a remedy. After a plan to widen the river channel proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers was presented in 1995 and roundly rejected, a group of special interests called Friends of the River formed, which built consensus on a "living river" plan.
Voters in the County of Napa narrowly approved an increase of sales tax in a March 1998 election to fund the Napa River Flood Project. In 2005, the Napa River again flooded the entire downtown area and destroyed 1,000 homes across the county.An ambitious redevelopment plan encompassing several blocks of downtown Napa's retail property was undertaken by the city in the early 1970s, though it did little to improve the city's economy.
Downtown Napa finally began to recover and emerge from a long economic slumber in the 2000s, triggered by a significant growth in Main Street restaurants and hotels. The redevelopment of First and Main streets and the Napa Mill complex helped to stimulate investments along the Napa riverfront. The Napa area was struck by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake centered 3.7 miles (6.0 km) northwest of nearby American Canyon.
In October 2017 the Atlas Fire and Partrick Fires burned several parts of Napa County. See also October 2017 Northern California wildfires
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