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Vaca business boomed during the late 1800s
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Delaplane, Kristin
[358]
[ECHOS-1997-358]
The summer of 1884, the editor published a list of businesses in Vacaville:
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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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Suisun booms in population and activities
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Delaplane, Kristin
[379]
[ECHOS-1998-379]
Suisun continued to be the bustling metropolis of the county in the 1860s, to which the following editorial attested:
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Solano townships boomed, then went bust
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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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Vallejo booms while Benicia cheers Lincoln
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Delaplane, Kristin
[381]
[ECHOS-1998-381]
In 1867, a suicide and an unrelated homicide occurred in Benicia. Col. R.A. Wainwright, commander at the Benicia Barracks, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a pistol [...]
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Vaca fruit industry blossoms in late 1800s
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Delaplane, Kristin
[260]
[ECHOS-1995-260]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council and the Vacaville Museum. First of two parts The fruit industry thrived in the Vacaville Township as the area's major economy between 1875 and 1915. By the turn of the century, half of all California's deciduous fruit was produced in the Vaca, Pleasants and Lagoon valleys and adjacent hills in Putah Creek and English Hills.
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Vaca businesses, families expanded in 1884
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Delaplane, Kristin
[357]
[ECHOS-1997-357]
The ladies in the Vaca and surrounding valleys had an opportunity when Miss Gardner began giving lessons in lace work. Her terms were $1 per lesson or $5 per term. She gave an exhibition of her talents at Platt's store.
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Building a bustling business in Vacaville
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Delaplane, Kristin
[335]
[ECHOS-1997-335]
The summer of 1883, Mr. and Mrs. James Collins, who lived 40 miles north of Vacaville, had an open house at their new house and invited all to come. About 70 guests came arriving at about 9 p.m [...]
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Animal husbandry big business in Vaca
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Delaplane, Kristin
[332]
[ECHOS-1997-332]
In 1883, the newly founded Vacaville newspaper, The Vacaville Reporter, advertised that the company provided services that are today provided by the downtown services of Pip's and Ulatis Printing, such as circulars, envelopes, handbills, business cards, funeral notices, billheads and visiting cards.
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Vaca Valley's fruit industry comes of age
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Delaplane, Kristin
[360]
[ECHOS-1997-360]
In October 1884, Raleigh Barcar took over as publisher of The Reporter. Publisher and founder, James McClain, claimed declining health made it necessary for him to leave the business. The Reporter moved to the back of Kinsmill's harness shop and realtors Lyon and Platt moved to the Reporter's old stand on the Triangle lot.
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