Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/140
1875
- Beringer Vineyards (pictured) in the Napa Valley is established
- The State Asylum for the Insane in Napa is established
- Point Montara Light in Montara begins operating using a kerosene lantern
- Luther Burbank moves to Santa Rosa from Massachusetts, with money from selling the rights to a potato cultivar (Russet Burbank potatoes pictured)