Site of Yount's Blockhouse

Yount raised the blockhouse in 1836, the year he became the first American to settle in the Napa Valley. The grant took its name from the Caymus, one of the Wappo communities of the valley, and acting governor Nicolás Gutiérrez signed it over that March largely on Mariano Vallejo's word; Yount had worked for Vallejo as a carpenter in Sonoma. He had left a wife and three children in Missouri in 1826. Two of them, his daughters Frances and Elizabeth Ann, came west with the Walker-Chiles party of 1843 and lived here in the blockhouse.

What the plaque says

Site of Yount's Blockhouse In this vicinity stood the log blockhouse constructed in 1836 by George Calvert Yount, pioneer settler in Napa County. Nearby was his adobe house, built in 1837, and across the bridge his grist and saw mills, erected before 1845. Born in North Carolina in 1794, Yount was a trapper, rancher, and miller, and grantee of the Ranchos Caymus and La Jota. He died at Yountville in 1865. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 564 Plaque placed by the California State Park Commission in cooperation with the Napa County Historical Society, June 26, 1958.

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Grave of George C. Yount — 0.9 mi
• Veterans Home of California — 1.8 mi
• Chiles Mill — 8.1 mi
• Beringer Brothers Winery — 8.6 mi