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56.
Aussie tree changed Solano's landscape
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[710]
[WAYITWAS-2007-710]
With the introduction of eucalyptus trees from Australia around 1853, California's landscape began to change rapidly. Nurseryman Ellwood Cooper was one of the first to seriously experiment with eucalyptus. He envisioned large belts of tree plantings to serve as windbreakers across California.
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57.
Album spurs school memories
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Bowen, Jerry
[709]
[WAYITWAS-2007-709]
A few weeks a go I received an e-mail from Arden Lites who lives in Sebastopol. She told me that her mother, Doris Mann, had found an album of photos in her attic with the name, "Floy P. Weeks, Green Valley School, 1915-1956," engraved on the front cover.
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Trees sparse before eucalyptus arrived
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[708]
[WAYITWAS-2007-708]
The California landscape that greeted the first missionaries and later the people lured west in the Gold Rush was very different from the one we are familiar with today.
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Tracing generations of owners
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Bowen, Jerry
[707]
[WAYITWAS-2007-707]
In my last column, Albert and Prudence Lyon had sold their Pleasants Valley property to the Long family, also early pioneers in the area, and moved to Sonoma where he purchased a land Grant on April 11, 1849.
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60.
Tale spans life of engineer, bridge and grower
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[706]
[WAYITWAS-2007-706]
Slowly, Solano County is acquiring its own group of historic structures that become cherished landmarks.
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Local settlers traveled west with Donner Party
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Bowen, Jerry
[705]
[WAYITWAS-2007-705]
When you study our West's history it is always interesting to note how many of the pioneer stories have a claim that they were part of the Donner Party.
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Vacaville women addressed the latest fashions
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[704]
[WAYITWAS-2007-704]
With spring truly here, we all have grown tired of dark, heavy winter clothes and are looking forward to lighter summer fashions.
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Today's Vacaville varies widely from 1946 plan
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Bowen, Jerry
[703]
[WAYITWAS-2007-703]
The title page says, "A Plan For The City Of Vacaville," and the document was submitted to the Planning Commission of the city of Vacaville by Planning Consultant, H. H. Jaqueth in 1946.
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Choice of good land bears fruit
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[702]
[WAYITWAS-2007-702]
In March of 1885, the Vacaville newspaper California Judicion investigated the reason for rising land values in the Vacaville area. A reporter set out to interview several prominent local orchardists.
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Service grew with population
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Bowen, Jerry
[701]
[WAYITWAS-2007-701]
In August 1956, the headline declared "Hickory Will Be Phone Prefix Here." The area was growing, and numbers like "6806" for the California Market in Vacaville couldn't possibly be used as the population exploded.
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