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Vallejo faces decline, gains business footing
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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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Loss of Capitol, decline of port end dreams
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Delaplane, Kristin
[228]
[ECHOS-1995-228]
Information for this article came from the Benicia Camel Barn Museum, Solano County Genealogical Society, Benicia Historical Society, and Vacaville Heritage Council (Part 2. Last week was the story of the founding of Benicia in 1848 by Robert Semple, who purchased the land from Gen. Vallejo. The first news of the Gold Rush was in Benicia [...]
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Town gains fame as fruit-growing capital
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Delaplane, Kristin
[247]
[ECHOS-1995-247]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council and Vacaville Museum. Second of two parts Vacaville was the birthplace of another man of note. The famed botanist, Willis Linn Jepson, was born in Vacaville in 1867.
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Vallejo's shot as state capital is short-lived
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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
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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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Vallejo: Dignified in face of adversity
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Delaplane, Kristin
[252]
[ECHOS-1995-252]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council. Second of two parts Last week: Gen. Mariano G. Vallejo is pictured as a scholar and a military man [...]
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Waters muddied early location of state capital
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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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Area fruit growers faced prosperity, ruin
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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.
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(77)
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Vallejo - 8 x 10 glass plate. Mare Island Naval Officers
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Trade, growth boom in county
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Delaplane, Kristin
[383]
[ECHOS-1998-383]
In 1864, Henry Connolly became a hotelier of note when he acquired the Solano White Sulphur Springs resort three miles from Vallejo. He knew the business well having run Vallejo's Washington Hotel for some time
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