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Napa Valley | Calistoga |
History
 Sharpsteen
Museum Rich in history Calistoga has worked diligently
to incorporate the new with the old, and has successfully
melded the historical concept of Americana-small-town with
the currency of the computer and the information age. Side-by-side
with million year old geysers are the spas offering mineral
soaks or mud baths, Aromatherapy and masseuses trained to
soothe the sore muscles of a rush-rush world. Also found are
the shops offering herbal and natural products from green-grocers
to mineral soaps, natural cottons and silks to rayon and polyesters.
And, of course, Calistoga is the home of Calistoga Mineral
Water and Crystal Geyser Water, those bottled natural compounds
that refresh and sustain life.
Sam
Brannan - After visiting the hot springs in Napa
County, Brannan bought a huge tract of land and founded the
village of Calistoga, (a combination of the words California
and Saratoga) planning a resort. Failing at that, he became
a brewer, then an alcoholic. Foresaking the city he helped
found, he drifted to San Diego, remarried and set up a small
ranch near the Mexican border. At the age of sixty-nine, he
was paid the sum of forty-nine thousand dollars in interest
from the government of Mexico. He quit drinking, paid all
his debts and died penniless at the age of seventy.
The Legend of the Geysers - Long, long ago, the peaceful
Ashochimi Indian tribe inhabited a rich and luxuriant valley
on both sides of a river, now known as the Russian River north
of San Francisco.
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