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2. Silverado Trail - Wikipedia

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   Later, it served as a wagon trail to link cinnabar mines on Mount St. Helena to San Pablo Bay, the northern portion of the San Francisco Bay, [1] and was the first permanent road from Napa to Calistoga. [2] Silver was discovered in Napa Valley in 1858, and wine production began in the 1870s, making the road an important trade route.

3. Silverado Resort and Spa - Wikipedia

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   The Silverado Resort and Spa is a 1,200-acre (4.9 km 2) golf, tennis, and spa resort in Napa County, California, United States. The venue is named after the Silverado Mine, a quicksilver mine near Mount Saint Helena. The resort is the fifth largest employer in Napa County. [3]

4. Calistoga, California - Wikipedia

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   Calistoga's economy was based on mining (silver and mercury) agriculture (grapes, prunes and walnuts) and tourism (the hot springs). One of the early visitors was Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote the Silverado Squatters while honeymooning with his wife Fanny Vandegrift at a cabin near Silverado Mine on Mount Saint Helena.

5. Napa, California - Wikipedia

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   In the 1860s, mining carried on, in a large scale, with quicksilver mines operating in many areas of Napa County. The most noted mine was the Silverado Mine, near the summit of Mount Saint Helena. At this time, the first wave of rural, foreign laborers from coastal villages of China's Canton province arrived in California and at Napa County mines.

6. Sam Brannan Cottage - Wikipedia

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   In 1859, he purchased the 2,000 acres surrounding the Hot Springs and named it Calistoga from joining the words California and Saratoga (New York's world-famous mineral water spa). By 1862, he opened the resort and Calistoga grew quickly as a result of this service industry and the quicksilver mining nearby.

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8. Cayetano Juarez Adobe - Wikipedia

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   The building is located less than half a mile east of the Napa River in what is now the city of Napa, California.It is at the beginning of the Silverado Trail, the first permanent road established in 1852 between Napa and Calistoga, California, which is near various mercury mines on the slopes of Mount Saint Helena.

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