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Annual Ball at Cement Hotel. Inside ballroom. Held for 20 years. People came from all over (S [...]

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Looking back on the birth of the Air Force / Dingler, Nancy [732] [RETROSPECT-2007-732]
In 1942, Fairfield was a sleepy agricultural dot on the landscape. Ragsdale airfield, as it first was known, was originally planned to be temporary. However, the mission changed as things do in wartime and the airfield became the Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base.

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Army airfield construction fuels housing plans / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [723] [WAYITWAS-2007-723]
Local cities today struggle to accommodate population increases. Vacaville, Fairfield and Suisun faced similar challenges in the later years of World War II, when construction of the new Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field brought hundreds of new residents.

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Money grew on trees - for awhile / Bowen, Jerry [142] [WAYITWAS-2002-142]
In 1888, the land around Suisun and Fairfield was occupied predominately by prosperous grain and stock farms and, higher up in the valley, by about 3,000 acres in fruit orchards.

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Unveiling Ceremonies Chief Solano Monument Program June 3, 1934

1934

Official Program for the Chief Solano Statue Unveiling Ceremonies on June 3, 1934. The statue was built by William Gordon Huff and installed in Suisun Valley On State Highway 4 miles west of Fairfield. Sponsored by the Massassoit Tribe of Fairfield and the Redmen of the Reservation of California. Dr. [...]

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Residences, Brewery, ranches. Solano County, CA, 1878

1878

Res. of H.C. Henderson, Suisun. Res. of G.N. Daniels, Denverton. [...]

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Port made Suisun City the county's hub / Delaplane, Kristin [312] [ECHOS-1996-312]
In 1858, with the location of the county seat in Fairfield, building and business in that part of the county took off at break-neck speed. The county valuation for that year was upwards to $4 million dollars at a time when taxes were $1.35 on $100. By mid-October a brick building, built by Capt. Waterman for the county clerk and treasurer, was completed by local builder A.P [...]

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Town of Cordelia launched with high hopes / Delaplane, Kristin [240] [ECHOS-1995-240]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council, Solano Genealogical Society and Fairfield Public Library archives. In 1866, the boundaries of Green Valley Township were laid out. They included the sites of Green Valley and Suisun Valley and the villages Cordelia/Bridgeport, and Rockville.

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Helping to make their communities better / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [541] [WAYITWAS-2004-541]
At the beginning of the 20th century, women all over the country founded women's service clubs to improve their communities. In upper Solano County, the three most prominent clubs were the Dixon Women's Improvement Club, Vacaville's Saturday Club, and Suisun/Fairfield's Wednesday Club.

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Solano County - The Prize Winning County 1915

1915

Solano County Souvenir Edition booklet from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Issued by Sunset Magazine Service Bureau for the Board of Supervisors of Solano County, CA. Highlights include detailed narrative on each city including Rio Vista, Suisun, Fairfield, Vacaville, Vallejo, Dixon, Benicia..