guest :: login
Home > Search Results: recid:3870
Search:
 
Search Tips :: Advanced Search
Search collections:
Sort by: Display results: Output format:
Solano History 6 records found  Search took 0.00 seconds. 
1.
(100)
2397 2397

J. B. Shirar, great, great grandfather, Kansas
Detailed record - Similar records
2.
(90)
2392 2392
1876

Mary Shirar, great grandmother
Detailed record - Similar records
3.
(80)
Earlier Days In August / Wichels, Ernest [813] [WICHELS-1964-813]
Vallejo and Mare Island share many August anniversaries. Not the least of these concern Admiral Farragut and his family. More about them later. Let's quickly review some of the other highlights-a few of these the present generation w ill remember; others were familiar to our great-grandfathers.
Detailed record - Similar records
4.
(80)
Town 'built around the shipping of fruit' / Delaplane, Kristin [338] [ECHOS-1997-338]
The following are excerpts from an oral history with T. Robert Boone Hawkins, interviewed June 1977. The Hawkins first came here in 1852, with my great-grandfather Arculus C. Hawkins [...]
Detailed record - Similar records
5.
(79)
Area fruit growers faced prosperity, ruin / Delaplane, Kristin [341] [ECHOS-1997-341]
'The golden age of the fruit business was 1880 to 1897. I think that apricot orchard of my great-grandfather's paid off. They started getting refrigerated cars on the railroad for shipping the stuff.
Detailed record - Similar records
6.
(79)
Carrying on family's agricultural tradition / Delaplane, Kristin [412] [ECHOS-1999-412]
"I am a fruit rancher and fourth-generation Vacavillian. My great-grandfather, George Sharpe, came here from England. He was a contractor and a builder and when the train stopped in Elmira, he decided the building opportunities were here. The towns were booming in the 1860s or 1870s [...]
Detailed record - Similar records