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Solano History 14 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.02 seconds. 
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Moreno family builds legacy in Vacaville / Delaplane, Kristin [413] [ECHOS-1999-413]
'At the turn of the century, the governor of Hawaii came up with the idea that maybe the Portuguese and Spanish people would be good to work in the fields. They had knowledge of sugar cane, because sugar cane was raised in many of the Spanish colonies.
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1734 1734

Sugar cane field?

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He created landmarks and a legacy / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [139] [WAYITWAS-2002-139]
Among the sights we all love about Vacaville are the historic buildings downtown, such as the Carnegie Library (which today houses the Chamber of Commerce) and the Victorian mansions along Buck Avenue.
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2951 2951

Cane field??

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2897 2897

Sugar beet field on the Mangels Ranch south of Green Valley..

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1674 1674

Building with tower Spanish-American War (All pictures 1674-1829)

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1447 1447

Elementary school class, turn of the century

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WY0040 WY0040
1920

Blackwelder Mfg. Co. started in this Birds Landing Shop. Bert Blackwelder first came to Benicia and; worked in the Iron Works there, then to Bird's Landing to work for W.T [...]

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Spanish Pruners Strike 1932 Spanish Pruners Strike 1932
2008

From 1911 to 1913, eight thousand Spanish families immigrated from Spain to the Hawaiian Islands. Promises of land and education were broken, nearly all continued to California, many would find their way to the fields and orchards of the San Joaquin Valley. In 1932 they went on strike. With the help of the IWW they took on the establishment, riots, beatings, lynching and the courts finally stopped them in California's first labor dispute in the fields. [...]


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Uhl family's peachy start in Vacaville / Delaplane, Kristin [352] [ECHOS-1997-352]
Clarence J. Uhl was married to Lula M. Thompson. The Uhls could trace their ancestral line back to 1760 when three brothers arrived in America. Clarence was born in Ohio in 1865 [...]
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