OUR NAMESAKES ~ THE DUO WHO BROUGHT US THE NAPA VALLEY

Joseph Ballinger Chiles (1810-1885), a businessman from Missouri, and Joseph Rutherford Walker, a renowned frontiersman, were pivotal figures in early California history, leading the first organized American settlers to the Napa Valley; a region, that just 9 years later, would become part of the 31st state. Born in Kentucky with lineage tracing back to Jamestown, Chiles moved to Missouri, fought in the Seminole Wars, and then, driven by a thirst for adventure, he and Walker led the Bartleson-Bidwell Party , a group of 32 Americans who, in 1841, "went west" to find a better life. becoming the first to cross the Sierras into Alta California...........CONTINUED

Joseph Ballinger Chiles

Joseph Rutherford Walker

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