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Solano History 14 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.02 seconds. 
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Township began with Mormon colony site / Bowen, Jerry [29] [WAYITWAS-2000-29]
In 1843, Lansford W. Hastings arrived in California and soon became a promoter attracting emigrants to the West.
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Bridgeport began with high hopes / Bowen, Jerry [80] [WAYITWAS-2001-80]
In my last article we explored the beginnings and demise of the original town of Cordelia. With the impending arrival of the California Pacific Railroad, residents realized the location of the town would no longer be on the route of normal travel. (In my last article on Cordelia I called it the Central Pacific, which was incorrect).
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Bird's Landing finds strength as retail center / Delaplane, Kristin [239] [ECHOS-1995-239]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council, Vacaville Museum, and Solano County Genealogical Society. Second of two parts Last week we looked at the beginnings of Collinsville, founded by the notorious Hastings as a new frontier for a group of Mormons. The Mormons never arrived, but a settlement of farmers and fisherman was established. The land changed hands and was the product of a huge land scam. In two years the scam unraveled and the town was sold to Emory Irving Upham.
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Solano townships boomed, then went bust / Delaplane, Kristin [235] [ECHOS-1995-235]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Museum, Vacaville Heritage Council and Vacaville Public Library. Solano County was one of the original 27 counties organized when California became a state in 1850. Providing water transport by the Sacramento River and its many sloughs and with some of the richest farming land, it was an ideal place to establish town sites. The towns were settled by men from the gold fields and those who came to California as pioneers.
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Buckeye tree may be Chief Solano burial site / Bowen, Jerry [679] [WAYITWAS-2006-679]
In the last column we saw that Francisco Solano's provisional grant issued to him in 1837 finally was made official on Jan. 28, 1842.
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Historic sites hidden by a veil of the past / Bowen, Jerry [616] [WAYITWAS-2005-616]
Perhaps in this piece I'll raise an awareness of the rapidly disappearing historic sites that we are losing in Solano County or of those that have already vanished because so little is known about them.
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Beverly Lum at 14 years old. Taken soon after she arrived in U. S. 1939
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Hastings' dream house became a nightmare / Bowen, Jerry [74] [WAYITWAS-2001-74]
The house on the corner of West 2nd and L street in Benicia was magnificent. Four stories tall and with 45 rooms, 21 of them bedrooms!
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Vacaville High Sch. Geo. Sharpe began construction on the old College site on College Hill (Andrews Park) in 1897 and comp. in 1898 [...]

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WY0159k WY0159k

Proposed route of V and; N Railroad - Site of proposed V and; N Terminal at West Sacramento, California..
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