California Historical Landmark No. 642

Leland Stanford'railroad builder, Governor of California, United States Senator, and founder of Stanford University'founded this winery in 1869, which was originally the site of the fashionable resort for wealthy San Franciscans in the 1850s, the Warm Springs Hotel. The vineyard, planted by his brother Josiah Stanford, helped to prove that wines equal to any in the world could be produced in California.