1905 Peacock Hotel (Berryessa Hotel) in the town of Monticello. - E.A. Peacock built the Berryessa Hotel in 1866, the first important commercial structure in the Berryessa Valley. It was destroyed by a fire in the late 1930's. Wade Little (tall gent in white shirt & tieon hotel porch) leased hotel from 1900 to 1908. Joe Morre later a Napa County Supervisor for 18 years, is seated at far right when he was a young man working as a blacksmith.

Photographs from the McKenzie Family Album

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vhc > "Death of A Valley" - Pirkle Jones photograph of the last Memorial Day at the Monticello Cemetery in Berryessa Valley as it was published in Aperture magazine.

vhc > 1905 Peacock Hotel (Berryessa Hotel) in the town of Monticello. - E.A. Peacock built the Berryessa Hotel in 1866, the first important commercial structure in the Berryessa Valley. It was destroyed by a fire in the late 1930's. Wade Little (tall gent in white shirt & tieon hotel porch) leased hotel from 1900 to 1908. Joe Morre later a Napa County Supervisor for 18 years, is seated at far right when he was a young man working as a blacksmith.

vhc > Berryessa Hotel - newspaper print of lithograph from 1878 - Bancraft Library Collection

vhc > Cook & McKenzie General Merchandise Store in Monticello

vhc > Mule Train hauling grain from the Berryessa Valley to Napa in the 1800's. One of thee mule trains was run by the Clark's.

vhc > Oak Grove School located five miles up Berryessa Valley from Monticello

1905 Peacock Hotel (Berryessa Hotel) in the town of Monticello. - E.A. Peacock built the Berryessa Hotel in 1866, the first important commercial structure in the Berryessa Valley. It was destroyed by a fire in the late 1930's. Wade Little (tall gent in white shirt & tieon hotel porch) leased hotel from 1900 to 1908. Joe Morre later a Napa County Supervisor for 18 years, is seated at far right when he was a young man working as a blacksmith.