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Solano History 15 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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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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Indians, grizzlies succumb to newcomers / Delaplane, Kristin [256] [ECHOS-1995-256]
Information for this article came from the Solano Genealogy Society and the Yolo County Library. In early days, Putah Creek passed just south of what is now the city of Davis. There along the banks, Patwin Indians - the Pooewin - built their villages some 1,500 years ago. Archaeologists have determined that they lived in dome-shaped structures common to Patwin tribes [...]
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Legends, myths a part of Rockville / Bowen, Jerry [146] [WAYITWAS-2002-146]
What is known today as Rockville Corners was once a thriving little village in the mid-1850s. Before that, it was a major encampment and settlement of the Suisun Indians before they were almost completely wiped out by smallpox from 1837 to 1839.
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Newspapers tell varied tales of Solano County / Delaplane, Kristin [366] [ECHOS-1997-366]
The following are news items of interest from various areas of Solano County as reported in 1865. Six miles east of Suisun City, Mrs. D.H. Fitzpatrick was selling her 160-acre ranch, which had been homesteaded in 1857. The price was $2,000.
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Delving into Winters story with Vacaville / Bowen, Jerry [551] [WAYITWAS-2004-551]
The town of Winters, located just across the Yolo County line, shares its history with Vacaville in many ways. The earliest inhabitants of the area were Indians known as the Wintun, also known as Southern Patwin or Southern Wintun. They moved into the southern Sacramento Valley from the north some 1,200 years ago.
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Tragic demise of "People of the West Wind" / Delaplane, Kristin [222] [ECHOS-1995-222]
Stone Age people were the first inhabitants of Solano County. This is known through artifacts found in Green Valley some years ago and dated by archaeologists to 2000 B.C. The next residents that we know of were the Patwin Indians. These people were the southern branch of the Wintun group and they lived in the region for a thousand years or more; some figures are as high as 4,000 years.
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Diary of 1873 tells of a smitten young man / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [649] [WAYITWAS-2006-649]
Several years ago, Kirsten Llamas, the great-great-great-granddaughter of David Creighton, one of the earlier settlers in the Vacaville area, shared some of her family's diaries and letters with me.
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Chief Solanos favorite wife tells her story / Bowen, Jerry [3] [WAYITWAS-2000-3]
If you have lived in Solano County for any length of time, you undoubtedly have heard or read some of the many stories of Chief Solano, for whom our county was named 150 years ago.
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Visualize Vacaville Surrounded By Water? / Rico, John [879] [RICO-1981-879]
Beware, the flood is coming. At this point I am rather confused about our climatic transitions in the years ahead. One group of scientists and meteorologists tell us the North Pole ice masses are gradually creeping toward us and that in a million years, more or less, little Vacaville will be covered by glaciers measuring hundreds of feet deep.
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The Origin Of Names / Wichels, Ernest [769] [WICHELS-1963-769]
Most of us take names for granted--we're speaking of geographical locations. Yet behind some of these names are interesting stories--oftentimes legends--which would fill pages of type. Today we'll mention a few in the local area.
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