Rancho Napa

Rancho Napa was a 22,718-acre (91.94 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Napa County, California given in 1838 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Salvador Vallejo.

He was Captain of militia at Sonoma and married Maria de la Cruz Carrillo.

[2] Unlike most Mexican land grants in California that remained intact at the end of the Mexican era, Rancho Napa was subdivided.

Salvador Vallejo subdivided and sold much of the land in 1847 (during the Mexican-American War and before the transfer of California to the United States), retaining 3,179 acres (12.9 km2) for himself.

[33][34] In 1863 Salvador Vallejo was a Major in the Union Army, and after the Civil War, he resigned and returned to his ranch in Napa in 1865, and died in 1876.