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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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Suisun Valley School, Fairfield, California
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Fruit packing house, Fairfield CA..
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It was a sign of the times in Fairfield / Bowen, Jerry [193] [WAYITWAS-2003-193]
In the 1920s the label "Twin Cities" was used to describe Fairfield/Suisun as Fairfield gained in economic importance.
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Memories of the Fairfield area / Bowen, Jerry [198] [WAYITWAS-2004-198]
Memoirs often provide valuable insight about the past that may seem of little importance when an individual first writes them. Today, with the last remains of the old company town of Cement rapidly disappearing under the onslaught of new development, a way of life is also being relegated to the dusty archives of history to be remembered only in the minds of a few old-timers and people who enjoy learning about the past.
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Life flowed on at the Fairfield waterworks / Bowen, Jerry [570] [WAYITWAS-2005-570]
Before I get into the meat of this column, I need to correct a mistake I made in the first segment. In the column I spelled Ms. Venning's middle name as "Lucille." It is spelled "Lucile."
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Long family roots grew on Winters fruit ranch / Delaplane, Kristin [434] [ECHOS-1999-434]
Melvin Fong and Nira Fong Wong are the grandchildren of Go Long, who started fruit farming in the Suisun Valley in the 1860s.
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War brings some prosperity to Fairfield, region / Dingler, Nancy [505] [RETROSPECT-2004-505]
FAIRFIELD'For a decade that started with death and ended in depression, the 1920s brought wealth, culture and development to many of Solano County.
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'Poorhouse' rich source of memories / Bowen, Jerry [113] [WAYITWAS-2002-113]
In 1892, an article appearing in the Vallejo Weekly Chronicle gave a rather graphic account of the conditions of Solano's first County Hospital. Built in the mid 1870s, it was then located near where Tabor Park is today in Fairfield. The property occupied by the "poorhouse," as it was commonly called, consisted of 60 acres in that area with wind breaks of eucalyptus trees.
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Solano County California 1905 Solano County California 1905
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Solano County California, The Land of Fruit, Grain and Money. Issued by the Solano County Board of Supervisors in 1905. Nestled in the foothills of the Coast Range on its Western border, and extending across broad acres of the most fertile land in bounteous California, till its Eastern confines are marked by the majestic Sacramento River, lies Solano County..
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