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 became documented in recorded history at the outset of the Spanish Mission period in the 1780s when what we know today as Evergreen became part of a huge Spanish land grant called Rancho Yerba Buena or Rancho Socayre—a 24,332-acre plot of land between Coyote Creek and our Diablo Range foothills.

This series will attempt to gather some of the history that affected our present day Evergreen district during the Spanish, Mexican and post Gold Rush eras.

The Roots of Evergreen installments will be published in The Villager the third week of every month and collected in The Villager Online under a new History heading.

This month’s installment is about pioneer vintner William Wehner.