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A town definitely in transition from its historic past to a tourist destination, Yountville provides an opportunity to leisurely stroll along the main street. Hotels, spas, restaurants and retail shops are surrounded by the adjacent rolling hills planted with vines.
General Mariano Vallejo granted 11,814 acres of Rancho Caymus land, in the area now known as Yountville to George Calvert Yount in 1836. By 1837 Yount had built an adobe house, and had also constructed grist and saw mills by 1845. Yount was a trapper, rancher and miller and is thought to be the first person to plant vineyards in the Napa Valley.
In 1870 Gottlieb Groezinger, a produce and fish merchant from San Francisco built what was at that time the largest winery in the Napa Valley. Today his original winery, distillery and wine cellar are a complex of upscale specialty shops, galleries and restaurants known as V Marketplace.
The Veterans Home of California in Yountville was founded in 1884 and is operated by the State of California, Department of Veterans Home features complete health care coverage, all meals and use of numerous recreational facilities including a 9–hole golf course.
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