Napa has long been a county of immigrants. Some 29,000 foreign-born people live in Napa, and their kids make up almost half of the county’s students. Seventy-one percent of farm and vineyard workers are immigrants, many of them naturalized citizens after living in Napa for decades. Immigrant labor alone produces $1.5 billion a year— 11% […]
Immigrants
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Documentary shines light on Chinese immigrants who helped build Napa Valley
Chinese immigrants arrived in the Napa Valley in the mid-1800s to work in the vineyards, tanneries, hop fields and nearby mines. They also worked as domestic servants and laborers. Yet their contribution to the development of the Napa Valley has been largely forgotten. The Chinatowns they built in Calistoga, Napa and St. Helena have disappeared. […]