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Calistoga is a city at the northern end of Napa Valley in Napa County, famous for its geothermal hot springs, mud baths, and wine country tourism.

The Upper Napa Valley around Calistoga was home to the Wappo people, who knew the hot springs as a healing ground and called the place Nilektsonoma, meaning "Chicken Hawk Place."

Calistoga was developed by Samuel Brannan, who arrived with a Mormon expedition in 1846, published San Francisco's first English-language newspaper, and became California's first millionaire after the Gold Rush.

Brannan bought more than 2,000 acres around the hot springs to build a resort rivaling Saratoga Springs, New York, and the name Calistoga reportedly came from his slip of the tongue turning "Saratoga of California" into "Calistoga of Sarafornia" in the fall of 1867.

Brannan's Hot Springs Resort opened in 1862 on grounds now occupied by Indian Springs Resort and the Brannan Cottage Inn, and the Napa Valley Railroad reached Calistoga in 1868, making it the transportation hub of the upper valley.

Calistoga was incorporated on January 6, 1886.

Robert Louis Stevenson honeymooned with his wife Fanny in an abandoned mining cabin on Mount Saint Helena near Calistoga in 1880 and turned the experience into his book The Silverado Squatters.

A local specialty in Calistoga is the mud bath — immersion in hot volcanic ash — and nearby stands the Old Faithful Geyser of California, an artificial geothermal geyser that erupts from a well drilled in the late nineteenth century.

Calistoga Sparkling Mineral Water began in 1924, after soda-fountain owner Giuseppe Musante accidentally tapped a hot water source while drilling for a cold-water well in 1920.

Calistoga anchors the Calistoga AVA wine appellation, with historic wineries nearby including Chateau Montelena, built in 1882, Larkmead Winery, built in 1884, and Sterling Vineyards — and the city famously bans fast-food franchises by law to preserve its small-town character.