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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

HENRY HAGEN, proprietor of Cedar Knoll, the beautiful country place about four
miles north of Napa, has been a resident of California since 1852. He purchased
Cedar Knoll thirteen years ago, then a vineyard of thirty acres, with a wine
cellar. Mr. Hagen has added to and beautified it until it is now a summer
paradise, even for California. There are 440 acres in the ranch, comprising hill
and rolling land, and valuable water privileges. There are now sixty acres in
vineyard. He had at one time 125 acres in vineyard, but it was destroyed by the
phylloxera, and he has since been planting resistant stocks, which he proposes
to continue till the entire areage [sic] above referred to has been replaced. He
plants the Riparia and LeNoir, grafting them with the Riesling, Chasselas and
others of the choicest varieties of grapes. Some of these resistant vines are
bearing very satisfactorily. He has a family orchard of some four acres
surrounding the house, and containing almost every variety of fruit. There is on
the place a winery, distillery and several wine cellars, with a storing capacity
of about 100,000 gallons. All the accessories which can add to comfort,
convenience and elegance are to be found on this model ranch. A park of three
acres, with a stream of water running through it all the year around, contains
twenty-three deer and fawns. There are three fish ponds: one for trout, one for
carp, and the other for black bass. A swimming pond, oval in shape, 110 feet
long by thirty wide, four feet deep at one end and eight feet at the other, is
cemented into the rock. This is fed by a constantly running stream, and affords
the finest bathing facilities in summer. Oranges, lemons, bananas and vines are
doing well, the trees at this writing being loaded with fruit. An iron spring
has been discovered on the place this summer, which adds therapeutic virtues to
the beauties of its surroundings. An over-arching bower of cypress shades the
graveled avenue from the road to the house. The remainder of the ranch furnishes
hay, grain and all the products of a general farm.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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