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    Napa Valley

    By | December 21, 2007

    Everyone remembers the Bliss wallpaper that comes with your Windows computer, but no one knows that it is Napa Valley in the picture.  Napa Valley is a picturesque county in San Fransisco which is famous for the wine industry. It has a warm summer and the county has a lot of rare and endangered species of flora and fauna. The county is home to 125,000 people which means that it is relatively sparsely inhabited and almost 80% of the population is white with small groups of other ethnicities. Age wise the population of the county is evenly distributed with people of all age groups being present in equal numbers.

    In 1776 a fortress was built by a Spanish governor and between 1821 and 1846 Napa Valley was under the control of the Mexicans who divided the county into 12 portions. The county was exposed to white occupation comparatively late and it was only in          the 1820s that European explorers visited these parts. The great writer Robert Louis Stevenson spent a good amount of time here in and around 1880 where he honeymooned and also spent some time writing.

    Napa Valley is a very popular weekend getaway for San Franciscans who come here to escape the cold and depressing weather and to enjoy the glorious and warm weather in the valley. A large portion of the valley between Napa and Calistoga has been preserved for farming and this preserve was the first of its kind in the state of California. While this preserve has caused the growth of residential areas to slow down the development and modernization within the cities has not been affected. There are a large number of light industries and business parks in this area which have sprung up in the recent past. The Valley is well connected by rail, road and air to the rest of the state.

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