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Solano History 17 records found  previous11 - 17  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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Vaca streets named for earliest settlers / Delaplane, Kristin [321] [ECHOS-1997-321]
In 1852, Mason Wilson and his wife, Luzena, a North Carolina native, arrived from the gold fields to harvest the wild hay in Solano that was selling for $150 a ton in San Francisco. Traveling in a covered wagon, they arrived in Vacaville and set up their rig on Main Street.
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Construction took off in building an Army airfield / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [734] [WAYITWAS-2007-734]
My recent columns on the wartime housing boom in response to the incoming personnel for the Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field led me to look a bit closer at the early years of Travis Air Force Base.
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How a courtship proceeded in the 1870s / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [651] [WAYITWAS-2006-651]
This column continues the story of the courtship of Thomas Jefferson Mize, also known as "TJ" or Jeff, and Mary Melissa Creighton. Both kept a diary, Thomas covering the years 1873 through 1875 and 1878, Mary covering the years 1874 and 1875.
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Fires and family life at the Water Works / Bowen, Jerry [567] [WAYITWAS-2005-567]
Some of the most interesting local history comes from the people who lived it. Last year, during the Solano County Historical Society's Pioneer Days Celebration, I was very fortunate to meet Betty Davis who lives in Fairfield. While we were talking, she asked me if I would be interested in a family history that was written by her mother, Edith Lucille Venning.
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Settler's humor helped her cope in pioneer days / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [4] [WAYITWAS-2000-4]
During the early years of the Gold Rush, women were a rare sight, especially in the gold fields, but also in the newly forming settlements. One of the few who braved the hardships of the journey was 28-year-old Luzena Stanley Wilson, who, together with her husband Mason Wilson and her two toddler-aged children, came to Vacaville in the spring of 1851.
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Flood of 1849 forced residents to rooftops / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [795] [WAYITWAS-2007-795]
This winter has not yet brought much cold or rainy weather, so that my holiday letter to shivering friends in Germany includes photos of roses in bloom. Yet this weather can change quickly, turning into heavy winter rains, such as Luzena Stanley Wilson and her family experienced in 1849 in Sacramento.
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Unearthing fact and fiction in life of poet / Bowen, Jerry [549] [WAYITWAS-2004-549]
In my last column we saw that Markham had run away and was gone for about six months and had finally realized his dream to attend Vacaville's California College. During my continuing research about Markham, I found the following in notes supplied to the Vacaville Heritage Council by J. W. Hawkins: The reference isn't noted, but I suspect it came from "The Unknown Edwin Markham" by Lois Filler.
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