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'Glasgow' pushed for Mare Island
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[154]
[WAYITWAS-2003-154]
From 1848 until 1850, the U.S. Navy conducted an extensive survey to determine whether to install a naval shipyard on Mare Island. Once the survey results were determined to be satisfactory, the United States government went ahead and purchased the island in January of 1853.
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WWI changed Solano's landscape
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[134]
[WAYITWAS-2002-134]
The spring of 1918 saw California farmers, including local orchard growers, worried. Many young men had been called to training camps or had left for the battlefields of Europe, and more were being drafted on a daily basis.
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Town not untouched by war
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[20]
[WAYITWAS-2000-20]
Vacaville residents during the 1850s and 1860s largely were supporters of the Democratic Party. With their strong agricultural background, voters found the Democratic platform more to their liking than the business-oriented one of the Republican Party. Hand in hand with this party affiliation went a sympathetic leaning toward supporting the South during the Civil War years. Thus the turmoil of those years also touched Vacaville.
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Christmas In Vallejo
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Wichels, Ernest
[777]
[WICHELS-1963-777]
Christmas is the same over the years--the family reunions, the joy of the children, and the turkey on the table--but the manner of reporting it has changed. We went back into the old copies of the Vallejo Chronicle 70 to 90 years ago, and bring you the life of the city in those holidays.
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Pittman handled life on her own well
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[176]
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This is a continuation of the story of the Pittman Family in Cordelia and Suisun Valley.
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Chautauqua lecturers, musicians filled tent
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[96]
[WAYITWAS-2001-96]
During the late 19th century, education and entertainment often went hand in hand. One of the many establishments to combine the two was the Chautauqua Institution in the town of Chautauqua in New York state.
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Early schoolhouse couldn't manage to keep its name
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
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Providing education to the growing number of families was a major concern during the early years. In 1855, James W. Anderson of Vacaville, the second superintendent of schools in Solano County, founded the private Ulatis Academy.
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Tale spans life of engineer, bridge and grower
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[706]
[WAYITWAS-2007-706]
Slowly, Solano County is acquiring its own group of historic structures that become cherished landmarks.
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Daily 1855 life detailed in traveler's journey
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[633]
[WAYITWAS-2006-633]
This is the second part of the story originally published in the Solano Herald on Dec. 1, 1855. In it, an unnamed gentleman talked about his journey from Sacramento to Benicia via the mining towns and camps of Amador and Calaveras counties.
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Wanderlust strikes a son of early Vacaville
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[213]
[WAYITWAS-2004-213]
This is the final column on the family of Luzena and Mason Wilson and their four children. The information is based on the research by Fern Henry in her book "My Checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California."
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