6/1/2025
6/1/2025
Landmark information
- Location:
NE corner of Cook Rd. and Yount Mill Rd, 1 mi N of Yountville - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Nothing Remains - Date First Visited:
9/14/1996 - Date Most Recently Visited:
6/1/2025 - GPS Coordinates:
N 38 25.270, W 122 22.190
About this landmark
Plaque text:
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.