Wine Country Gazette ·
St. Helena: where the town’s water comes from
The town of St. Helena got its first municipal water company on July 27, 1878. The St. Helena Star announced it that morning: "It gives us great pleasure to record at last the formation of a company for the supply of St. Helena with water. It is something she has long needed." The directors, listed in the Star, were John York, Charles Krug, Jacob Beringer, Seneca Ewer, and G. K. Gluyas — the same wine families whose names still hang over Highway 29.