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Solano History 15 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.02 seconds. 
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Vallejo's shot as state capital is short-lived / Delaplane, Kristin [233] [ECHOS-1995-233]
Information for this article came from the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum and Vacaville Heritage Council - First of two parts. During the age of the American Indians, the region around Vallejo was known for its wild cattle and horses that fed on the area's high oats. No evidence has ever turned up to show that there were Indian settlements there, but it does appear tribes came from Suisun Valley and other locations to dig for shellfish and hunt the cattle and other game.
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Vallejo had short-lived stint as state capital / Bowen, Jerry [782] [WAYITWAS-2007-782]
The next time you are in the area bounded by York, Santa Clara, Maine and Sacramento streets in Vallejo, you will be near a long-gone historic site. Back in 1852 a two-story building sporting two flags dominated a hill that was centrally located between those streets.
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Cattle boom of 1850s short-lived in Solano / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [819] [WAYITWAS-2008-819]
In my last column, Luzena Stanley Wilson described her experiences of riding across the hills of Solano County around 1851 to visit her Wolfskill neighbors at Putah Creek and encountering the vast herds of grazing black Spanish steers.
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Waters muddied early location of state capital / Bowen, Jerry [803] [WAYITWAS-2008-803]
In my last column we took a look at the events leading up to the establishment of the California State Capital at Vallejo. Congress finally passed a bill to admit California to the Union and it was signed by President Fillmore on Sept. 9, 1850.
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Vallejo faces decline, gains business footing / Delaplane, Kristin [234] [ECHOS-1995-234]
Information for this article came from The Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum and Vacaville Heritage Council. Second of two parts. Last week we saw the beginnings of Vallejo and how the town first formed, its elation at being chosen as the state capital and subsequent disappointment at being removed as the state capital. How Mare Island became its source of revival and subsequent growth.)
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Solano County Greets You - 1938 Solano County Greets You - 1938
1938

Your Introduction to Solano County, CA. A County whose history is shot through with the golden lore of a Golden State, whose cities fought to become that State's capital in its swashbuckling days. A County of breathlessly beautiful scenery and gigantic industrial plants, miles of orchards and countless acres of grain. Great herds of livestock and quay walls of mighty warships, prairie lands that became vast natural gas producing fields, a County of lakes and bays and sloughs and channels, picturesque valleys and rolling hills that is Solano County, America's Little California..
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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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Birds Landing tavern shot full of memories / Bowen, Jerry [584] [WAYITWAS-2005-584]
I just have to tell you about a great trip into the past last weekend. Ted Haskins, Jesse Hayden and I headed to Birds Landing last weekend to continue our ongoing, self-appointed quest to videotape as much of Solano County's history as we can. We were to meet one of this column's readers, Evelina Lawrence, who had been a resident of the town back in the 1950s. She lives in Oakland now, but she had many fond memories of the town she lived in as a child and a photo album from which we were to re-photograph pictures [...]
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Hunters flock to Solano County for ducks / Delaplane, Kristin [280] [ECHOS-1996-280]
The marshlands in Solano County have been a haven for wild ducks and geese for more than 4,000 years. The Suisun marshlands in particular have the most abundant growth of tall tules and is rich with good duck food. So it was natural that Indians were the first to become adept at hunting this wild game.
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Faded Evidence of Former Winery Exists / Bowen, Jerry [684] [WAYITWAS-2006-684]
I briefly mentioned an early stone building on a small separate seven and one-half acre parcel of land belonging to Samuel Martin who built the Stonedene mansion in 1861 in my last article. I also speculated in previous chapters of this article this was also the actual site of the Santa Eulalia Mission and that one of Indians in charge of the rancheria/mission was Chief Solano and that it was here that he returned to live out his final days.
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