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Solano History 21 records found  beginprevious12 - 21  jump to record: Search took 0.00 seconds. 
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Suisun City, California Welcome Home arch to the veterans of the Spanish American War. The arch was set on south end of Suisun Plaza..
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George F. Shirar, Lee Shirar, Raldo Shirar, Virgil Shirar
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As tide of World War II shifts, so does the fate of prisoners / Bowen, Jerry [594] [WAYITWAS-2005-594]
In my last column we told of George Nelson's imprisonment at Bilibid prison hospital in Manila, Philippines, for 10 months while his wounds healed and of his later transfer to the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp where he arrived May 17, 1943.
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Suisun men helped oust Spanish troops / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [158] [WAYITWAS-2003-158]
One of the tenets of American politics during the 18th and 19th centuries was the belief that the country should remain unconcerned with European affairs.
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Travails of a prisoner of the Japanese in war / Bowen, Jerry [591] [WAYITWAS-2005-591]
In my last column, I wrote about the fall of Corregidor to the Japanese on May 8, 1942, and the surrender of American forces on Bataan the following day.
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Rio Vista man survives war as a POW / Bowen, Jerry [596] [WAYITWAS-2005-596]
When we last left George Nelson of Rio Vista, he had been transferred by the Japanese to Camp XII on April 10, 1944, at Hotachi, near Tokyo where as a prisoner of war he was required to work in a copper mine.
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Armijo family prospered on Tolenas land grant / Dingler, Nancy [477] [RETROSPECT-2003-477]
Solano County was originally made up of six Spanish/Mexican land grants, all acquired by General Mariano Vallejo. He encouraged Mexican and American citizens to settle in Northern California, purchase land from Vallejo, raise cattle and their own little empires. One of those families were the Armijos, who arrived in the Suisun Valley around 1842.
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Adam Willis was a 'pioneer of pioneers' / Delaplane, Kristin [388] [ECHOS-1998-388]
'Strength, perseverance and courage describe the life of one of Solano County's earliest African-American pioneers, Adam Willis. In the antebellum era - the period before the Civil War - success for African-Americans was extremely rare and limited. Adam Willis was one of these success stories and his story has its roots in Solano County.
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Rio Vista man was a WWII prisoner / Bowen, Jerry [589] [WAYITWAS-2005-589]
World War II produced many real heroes. Some were prisoners of war. George Nelson of Rio Vista was one of those heroes.
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Patwin legend tells of smokehouse / Bowen, Jerry [179] [WAYITWAS-2003-179]
Little was known about the American Indians who inhabit- ed Solano County and the surrounding area until the late 1800s and early 1900s. By that time, for various reasons, there were virtually none left, disease being the biggest killer after the arrival of the Spanish.
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