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Solano History 26 records found  1 - 10nextend  jump to record: Search took 0.00 seconds. 
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Daring runs through Solano delivered / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [164] [WAYITWAS-2003-164]
During the early years of the Gold Rush, settlers were faced with a society that as yet could not offer many of the services they had been used to back East, such as banking and postal service.
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Gold Rush lured family to California / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [199] [WAYITWAS-2004-199]
Luzena Stanley Wilson and her husband, Mason Wilson, are two names that resonate through Vacaville's early history. The couple arrived in California with their two toddlers in 1849, attracted by the Gold Rush. They experienced the hardships of the rough society of Sacramento and Nevada City before finally settling in the fertile Vaca Valley in 1851.
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A man of history, community service / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [121] [WAYITWAS-2002-121]
This is the story of a man many folks in Solano County know. I have always felt very fortunate that I was lucky enough to count myself among Bert Hughes' many friends.
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Settler's humor helped her cope in pioneer days / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [4] [WAYITWAS-2000-4]
During the early years of the Gold Rush, women were a rare sight, especially in the gold fields, but also in the newly forming settlements. One of the few who braved the hardships of the journey was 28-year-old Luzena Stanley Wilson, who, together with her husband Mason Wilson and her two toddler-aged children, came to Vacaville in the spring of 1851.
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Paper's first edition extols area's virtues / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [678] [WAYITWAS-2006-678]
The Vacaville Reporter began its long career as the local newspaper with its first edition delivered March 10, 1883. Its first publisher was James D. McClain.
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Pioneer settler wanted land, not gold / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [136] [WAYITWAS-2002-136]
Though he was born in Orange County, Va., on May 30, 1808, he grew up in Kentucky. Like many young frontier men, he felt the urge to move further west. The year 1830 found him as a farmer in New London, Miss., where he married Cornelia Catherine Lamme, a great-granddaughter of Daniel Boone, on Jan. 19, 1830.
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Early California gold rush pioneer / Bowen, Jerry [125] [WAYITWAS-2002-125]
Some of Solano County's early residents are relatively unknown locally but when you look into their past you find that they left an impressive trail of actions and deeds.
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Early Vallejo thirsted for fresh water / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [106] [WAYITWAS-2002-106]
Have you run your water faucet today and enjoyed a drink of fresh, clean tap water?
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No hurry in picking men, Gold Rush women told / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [691] [WAYITWAS-2007-691]
Advice was to take one's time, and judge a man beyond his fine clothes.
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Portrayals of students offered / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [672] [WAYITWAS-2006-672]
Today we continue to follow the history of "The Wreath," the school paper published by teachers of the Benicia Young Ladies Seminary in 1855.
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