Editing Lake County, California (section)

==History==
Lake County has been inhabited by [[Pomo]] Native Americans for over ten thousand years. Pomos had been fishermen and hunters, known especially for their intricate basketry made from lakeshore tules and other native plants and feathers. Pomo people continue to live in Lake County.<ref>{{cite web|title=Our Mission/History|url=https://www.lcthc.com/about-us/our-history/}}</ref>

The area had [[European American]] settlers since at least the 1840s. Lake County was created in 1861 from parts of [[Napa County|Napa]] and [[Mendocino County|Mendocino]] counties.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genealogytrails.com/cal/lake/#.Vhfe4RiL6T8 |title=Lake County, California |publisher=Genealogy Trails |date=2006 |access-date=October 9, 2015 }}</ref> The eastern boundary of Lake County, which was not clearly specified in the 1861 act, was clarified by legislative acts passed in 1864 and 1868.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Statutes of California Passed at the Seventeenth Session of the Legislature|page=269|date=1868|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haY3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA269.|author1=California|publisher=J. Winchester}}</ref> A major effect of the 1868 act was to include in Lake County the entire watershed of [[North Fork Cache Creek]], which had previously been claimed by [[Colusa County]].<ref>{{cite book|title=California County Boundaries: A Study of the Division of the State into Counties and the Subsequent Changes in their Boundaries
|publisher=California Historical Survey Commission|author=Coy, Owen C.|date=1923|url=https://www.tellusventure.com/downloads/reference/California_county_boundaries.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113065127/https://www.tellusventure.com/downloads/reference/California_county_boundaries.pdf|archive-date=November 13, 2020}}</ref>

The 1911 ''California Blue Book'' lists the major crops as [[Williams pear|Bartlett pears]] and beans. Other crops include grain, alfalfa, hay, prunes, peaches, apples, grapes and walnuts. Stockraising included goats, hogs, turkeys and dairying.<ref name=bluebook-2011>{{cite book|last=California Secretary of State|title=California Blue Book|date=1911|page=655|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Km8kAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA655 }}</ref>

Some vineyards were planted in the 1870s by European Americans, but the first in the state were established in the 18th century by Spanish missionaries. By the early 20th century, the area was earning a reputation for producing some of the world's greatest wines. However, in 1920, national [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition]] essentially ended Lake County's wine production. With authorized cultivation limited to sacramental purposes, most of the [[vineyard]]s were ripped out and replanted with walnut and pear orchards.