Our History

The Roots of Evergreen series

The San Francisco Bay region has been a hot spot of human activity long before events were recorded. Our beautiful Evergreen area was part of all that and first...

The early years of the Cribari family (part 1)

The Cribari family patriarch, Benjamin Cribari, was born in Cosenza, Italy. He married Josephine Abruzzini and had four sons before he immigrated to the United States in 1892—about the...

History of the Evergreen area—Pioneer vintner Albert Haentze

In 1915, William Wehner sold his winery and vineyards to Albert Haentze. The two men had a lot in common. Haentze (1896-1947) was also a German immigrant and a...

History of the Evergreen area—Pioneer vintner William Wehner

Probably the man who first transformed our Evergreen hillsides the most was William Wehner, a German immigrant who made his fortune in Chicago as a producer of large-scale panoramic...

History of the Evergreen area—Pioneer Rancher John McCarty

History never seems to completely evaporate, it tends to seep into the fabric of the community; leaving fragments of the past in the old ruins, the trees, landforms and...