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Solano History 7,153 records found  beginprevious6804 - 6813nextend  jump to record: Search took 0.00 seconds. 
6804. Necessity planted seeds of diet / Bowen, Jerry [693] [WAYITWAS-2007-693]
Now we will dive into the vegetarian side. First off, the Miwok were not agriculturists, other than they may have grown a little tobacco, and made attempts at controlling vegetation by attempting to burn off dry grass about August when Mother Nature failed to do it by lightning or spontaneous combustion.
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6805. Skewered skunk, coyote on menu / Bowen, Jerry [692] [WAYITWAS-2007-692]
Have you ever wondered what the Indians in the Solano area used as their daily food and how they prepared it?
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6806. No hurry in picking men, Gold Rush women told / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [691] [WAYITWAS-2007-691]
Advice was to take one's time, and judge a man beyond his fine clothes.
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6807. Santa Eulalia find historically significant / Bowen, Jerry [690] [WAYITWAS-2007-690]
In my last column I diverted a little from the story when the sink was identified as a sacrarium and helped identify the stone portion of the "Canevascini Winery" as possibly the original Santa Eulalia Chapel building and its significance as a historical site.
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6808. Grant upstages Suisun City's incorporation / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [687] [WAYITWAS-2007-687]
In 1851, Capt. Josiah Wing purchased land in the Suisun Bay, and sent for his wife, Mercy, and the 10 children from both his first and second marriage from the East Coast.
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6809. Sink may be clue to Solano's oldest building / Bowen, Jerry [686] [WAYITWAS-2007-686]
In the last installment of this series we took a brief look at the building located on what I speculated was the property where the Santa Eulalia Mission once stood.
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6810. Capt. Wing steered Suisun City's early course / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [685] [WAYITWAS-2007-685]
After his successful business venture in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, followed by the acquisition of the schooner Ann Sophia, Capt. Josiah Wing acquired a plot of land on Suisun Island in 1851.
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6811. Faded Evidence of Former Winery Exists / Bowen, Jerry [684] [WAYITWAS-2006-684]
I briefly mentioned an early stone building on a small separate seven and one-half acre parcel of land belonging to Samuel Martin who built the Stonedene mansion in 1861 in my last article. I also speculated in previous chapters of this article this was also the actual site of the Santa Eulalia Mission and that one of Indians in charge of the rancheria/mission was Chief Solano and that it was here that he returned to live out his final days.
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6812. Sea captains end up ashore in Suisun area / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [683] [WAYITWAS-2006-683]
Like many pioneers, Capt. Josiah Wing came to California drawn by the Gold Rush and its famed opportunities for acquiring wealth in a short time.
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6813. Tracing the origins of buildings on Suisun Rancho / Bowen, Jerry [681] [WAYITWAS-2006-681]
We left off in the last article with Samuel Martin purchasing 142 acres of the Suisun Ranch from partners, Archibald A. Ritchie and Robert H. Waterman in 1853.
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