Buchli is an

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in Napa County,

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. It lies at an elevation of 16 feet (5 m) between Los Carneros AVA and the Napa-Sonoma Marsh. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a

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in the community was used to ship

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grown in Napa and Sonoma counties along the

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. In 1946, Press Wireless, Inc. constructed a

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station in Buchli which received and processed most news reports from

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. The station was the first in the

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to receive signals from

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Leslie Salt The Leslie Salt Company was a salt-producing company located in the San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds, San Francisco Bay Area, at the current locations of Newark, California, Newark, Hayward, California, Hayward and other parts of the bay. Background ...

purchased land to the south in the 1950s, which it developed into salt evaporation ponds. Starting in the 1970s, the

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purchased much of the land around Buchli to set aside as a wildlife area.

References

Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Napa County, California {{NapaCountyCA-geo-stub