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Lessons, then and now
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Bowen, Jerry
[764]
[WAYITWAS-2007-764]
In my last column, we took a continuing brief look at some of the 1911 requirements as written in the Course of Study Rules for Promotion and Graduation from Solano County Schools to graduate, in the eighth grade, from grammar school.
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Captain Waterman sailed ahead
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Bowen, Jerry
[167]
[WAYITWAS-2003-167]
Fairfield is celebrating a yearlong centennial in observance of the city's incorporation in 1903. I thought a series of articles on Captain "Bully" Waterman, Fairfield's founder, would be appropriate and would bring to light what appears to be some questionable history linked to him.
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Bird's Landing finds strength as retail center
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Delaplane, Kristin
[239]
[ECHOS-1995-239]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council, Vacaville Museum, and Solano County Genealogical Society. Second of two parts Last week we looked at the beginnings of Collinsville, founded by the notorious Hastings as a new frontier for a group of Mormons. The Mormons never arrived, but a settlement of farmers and fisherman was established. The land changed hands and was the product of a huge land scam. In two years the scam unraveled and the town was sold to Emory Irving Upham.
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Sink may be clue to Solano's oldest building
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Bowen, Jerry
[686]
[WAYITWAS-2007-686]
In the last installment of this series we took a brief look at the building located on what I speculated was the property where the Santa Eulalia Mission once stood.
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Efforts are poured into a record of Solano
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Bowen, Jerry
[498]
[WAYITWAS-2004-498]
In my last article I discussed how the Solano County Historical Society began and we saw that members plunged into many difficult projects right from the start. In this installment of the history of the society we shall see what progress was made and look at other projects they poured their efforts into.
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Chinese enjoy long history in Vacaville
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Delaplane, Kristin
[405]
[ECHOS-1998-405]
'My grandfather came to America in the 1850s to look for gold. He wanted $200 in gold to buy land in China. He stayed a year, got his $200 and went home to the family he had started there.
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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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How Jose Armijo got a land grant
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[500]
[WAYITWAS-2004-500]
This week we continue the story of the Armijo family and the Tolenas land grant. It is based in part on an untitled and unpublished set of articles on Jose Francisco Armijo by David A. Weir, the former publisher of the Solano Republican and author of a biography on Captain R. Waterman [...]
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Dixon was an elk horn 'graveyard'
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Bowen, Jerry
[115]
[WAYITWAS-2002-115]
I was looking for something to write about for this week's article when the following caught my eye in a 1968 Centennial issue of the Dixon Tribune.
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Rhyme and reason behind early Solano poet
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Bowen, Jerry
[544]
[WAYITWAS-2004-544]
I don't suppose that most newcomers to Vacaville have ever heard of Edwin Markham. Some may have heard of the poem, "Man With a Hoe," but don't know that a man who once lived in the now-contentious Lagoon Valley wrote it. So, let's look at a little history of Charles Edwin Anson Markham and some interesting contradictions.
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