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Solano History 15 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.04 seconds. 
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Tracing generations of owners / Bowen, Jerry [707] [WAYITWAS-2007-707]
In my last column, Albert and Prudence Lyon had sold their Pleasants Valley property to the Long family, also early pioneers in the area, and moved to Sonoma where he purchased a land Grant on April 11, 1849.
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Tracing ranch ties through generations / Delaplane, Kristin [416] [ECHOS-1999-416]
'My mother's grandfather, John Wesley Hill, came from Missouri in 1847. He rode up here when the oats would come up to the top of the horse's back. He says, 'That's good enough for me,' and he squatted on some land. His main thing was raising cattle.
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Tracing the origins of buildings on Suisun Rancho / Bowen, Jerry [681] [WAYITWAS-2006-681]
We left off in the last article with Samuel Martin purchasing 142 acres of the Suisun Ranch from partners, Archibald A. Ritchie and Robert H. Waterman in 1853.
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Traces of some early homes still survive / Bowen, Jerry [202] [WAYITWAS-2004-202]
Have you ever wondered where some of the earliest settlers lived in Solano County? Perhaps your own home is located right on top of, or near, the site one of our historical figures once called home and you don't even know it.
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Luzena Wilson sold land to Buck family / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [209] [WAYITWAS-2004-209]
This column concludes the story of Luzena Stanley Wilson and Mason Wilson. The information is based on Luzena's memoirs and the research by Fern Henry in her new book "My checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California."
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1894

Solano Co. Pioneers. (Front L to R) John R. Wolfskill, M. [...]

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Armijo family prospered on Tolenas land grant / Dingler, Nancy [477] [RETROSPECT-2003-477]
Solano County was originally made up of six Spanish/Mexican land grants, all acquired by General Mariano Vallejo. He encouraged Mexican and American citizens to settle in Northern California, purchase land from Vallejo, raise cattle and their own little empires. One of those families were the Armijos, who arrived in the Suisun Valley around 1842.
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Meet the famous owner of Green Valley Country Club / Dingler, Nancy [465] [RETROSPECT-2001-465]
Have you ever noticed how many great public buildings started out as magnificent homes before their conversion? Such a building is the current Green Valley Country Club. The house was originally built by James Harbin on 130 acres that he had homesteaded. However, in my research, the most interesting owner of the home was the man who took possession of the property in 1864. Granville Swift was larger than life [...]
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Capt. Ritchie battles for his land holdings / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [506] [WAYITWAS-2004-506]
On Aug. 26, 1850, Gen. Vallejo sold his Rancho Suisun grant, which he had purchased back from Chief Solano earlier in May, to Capt. Alexander Archibald Ritchie [...]
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Henry and Elizabeth Klier. Elizabeth-Margaret-Henry. Early owners of the now Star Bakery about 1910. Brought in by Georgia Burton, 8/10/1978
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