Windy Flat was an overnight stop for Mule Trains as they made the three day trip from the Berryessa Valley to Napa and back. Grain was hauled from the valley to Napa and the wagons were then loaded with needed supplies for the return trip.

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

Windy Flat was an overnight stop for Mule Trains as they made the three day trip from the Berryessa Valley to Napa and back. Grain was hauled from the valley to Napa and the wagons were then loaded with needed supplies for the return trip.

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