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Solano History 18 records found  previous11 - 18  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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Bear gave Grizzly Island new name / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [77] [WAYITWAS-2001-77]
Vast acres of tules, miles of sloughs and many smaller islands surrounding Grizzly Island make up the Suisun Marsh, the largest inland marsh in the continental United States.
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Before it was Grizzly Island, was it 'Grisly'? / Delaplane, Kristin [291] [ECHOS-1996-291]
Some old timers would say Grizzly Island was named from the days when the grizzlies called the island home. That the bears from Mount Diablo came to feed on the island's wild hips and blackberries. Supposedly in those days they were said to be able to cross at a point where the lands of Contra Costa and Solano very nearly met and where the water was quite shallow.
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Grizzly Island gopher hole 1, ditch 1, camp 3, 4/17/14
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1914

Grizzly Island ditch 2, Yee Yen, 4/17/14
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1914

Grizzly Island, gopher plow w/tractor 1, field "C", camp 2
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1913

Piles of cut wheat, Grizzly Island, Lot 8, 6/13
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Grizzly Island clam bucket dredge, G. L. Peabody dredge
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Grizzly Island slowly evolves to preserve / Delaplane, Kristin [292] [ECHOS-1996-292]
In the 1880s through the 1900s, the industry on Grizzly Island was pretty well given over to dairies. Cows were milked only in the spring and then they were milked by hand. Their fresh milk was separated and fed to the ranchers' calves and pigs. It was Steve Staffane's job to stop at each ranch to collect the cream, which was hauled by barge on the sloughs to Dutton's Landing where, the White Rose Creamery was established [...]
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