Solano History Database: recid:910 - Search Results

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Pages the Past. Big bldg. (upper left) is hotel and hospital, park in front, general store and butcher shop..

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1912

Cement - School house until 1915. Then became post office and business office. Phot taken in 1912

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Residence of John H. Gardiner, Rio Vista, Solano County, U.S. Arsenal, Benicia, CA

1878

Historical atlas map of Solano County, California. Compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys by Thompson and West. San Francisco, Cala. 1878. Thos. Hunter, Pr. [...]

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1944 blast at Benicia arsenal shakes up Solano / Dingler, Nancy [462] [RETROSPECT-2000-462]
Windows shattered and walls cracked the night of July 17, 1944 throughout Solano County. Citizens of Fairfield and Suisun ran into the streets, fearing that the Japanese had penetrated U.S. defenses and were dropping bombs. Speculation ran the gamut from German v-rockets to the arsenal at Benicia blowing up.

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1955 blast at Benicia arsenal shakes up Solano / Dingler, Nancy [461] [RETROSPECT-2000-461]
Windows shattered and walls cracked the night of July 17, 1944 throughout Solano County. Citizens of Fairfield and Suisun ran into the streets, fearing that the Japanese had penetrated U.S. defenses and were dropping bombs. Speculation ran the gamut from German v-rockets to the arsenal at Benicia blowing up.

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Troops defeated in search for artesian water / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [550] [WAYITWAS-2004-550]
With the construction of its first seven buildings by 1859, including two store magazines, two shops, a hospital, a guardhouse and a three-story storehouse, the Benicia Arsenal was ready to serve the United States Army as the only arsenal on the West Coast.

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1962

View of the Sacramento River from in front of the Hastings Adobe taken in 1962 by Wood Young..

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1952

Air view of Benicia, 1952

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Calm, comotion alternated with arsenal / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [553] [WAYITWAS-2004-553]
My last two columns have covered the installation of the Benicia Arsenal and the difficulty commanders of the installation had in obtaining drinkable water.

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1925

Old Vacaville High School gymnasium post card. Shows front and east end. 1925