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Solano History 14 records found  previous11 - 14  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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First Rio Vista vanished on crest of new year / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [622] [WAYITWAS-2006-622]
Winter storms and flooding have been part of local history since early settlers began to record the weather. The new year of 2006 will be remembered as one such moment in time during which severe rain and flooding created havoc for many county residents.
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Solano agriculture was fruitful in early 1900s / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [602] [WAYITWAS-2005-602]
Solano County has undergone vast changes over the last 100 years. At the turn of the 20th century, its economy centered on agriculture, with a focus on fresh fruit in the valleys around Vacaville and Suisun.
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Exposition was to showcase county / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [590] [WAYITWAS-2005-590]
As many of my readers have guessed by now, I am intrigued by the number of great community events, celebrating a specific moment in local history or just life in general and usually involving the whole county, that have taken place over the last 150 years of Solano County's existence. Headlines of the various local newspapers always spout tantalizing words such as "thousands of visitors," "pageants," "gigantic" and "spectacular," and recount the enormous efforts to create these elaborate festivals.
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Humble beginnings for Vaca poet / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [86] [WAYITWAS-2001-86]
Few people born in Vacaville or who at least lived here for some time during the 19th century have become as widely known and revered as poet Edwin Markham.
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