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Early village's rural assets drew raves from many
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[6]
[WAYITWAS-2000-6]
The town of Vacaville grew slowly, from its inception with two buildings and a handful of settlers in 1851 to a town of 71 families by June 1880, totaling 361 inhabitants. Another 141 families lived in the surrounding area, adding 938 people to the population number.
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Suisun City's Early History full of Drama
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Bowen, Jerry
[823]
[WAYITWAS-2008-823]
Suisun was a fast growing town from the 1870s to the 1890s. Loads of marble passed through Suisun from Judge Swan's marble quarry located about seven miles north of Suisun at Tolenas Springs en route to San Francisco. A few of the old Suisun families had 40-pound clocks encased in the marble. The mineral water there was bottled and sold, along with sarsaparilla in the bars of the period [...]
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Commerce ebbs, expands in Solano past
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Delaplane, Kristin
[409]
[ECHOS-1998-409]
In 1873, Suisun City was enjoying its place as the hub of activity in the county. In that town, it was tradition to welcome in the New Year and ring out the old by ringing both the church and fire bells.
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Dusty memories and a castle on the hill
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Bowen, Jerry
[34]
[WAYITWAS-2000-34]
Ghost towns are often the essence of dreams of adventure. They conjure up dreams of tumbleweeds rolling down a dusty street, doors hanging askew swaying in a whimsical breeze and decaying buildings embracing the memories of a population long since gone.
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Construction took off in building an Army airfield
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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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Looking back on the birth of the Air Force
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Dingler, Nancy
[732]
[RETROSPECT-2007-732]
In 1942, Fairfield was a sleepy agricultural dot on the landscape. Ragsdale airfield, as it first was known, was originally planned to be temporary. However, the mission changed as things do in wartime and the airfield became the Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base.
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Army airfield construction fuels housing plans
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[723]
[WAYITWAS-2007-723]
Local cities today struggle to accommodate population increases. Vacaville, Fairfield and Suisun faced similar challenges in the later years of World War II, when construction of the new Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field brought hundreds of new residents.
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Population takes off with a new air base
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[719]
[WAYITWAS-2007-719]
Well into the 20th century, Vacaville, Fairfield, and Suisun remained small communities with slow-growing populations. By 1940, Fairfield had 1,312 residents. That growth pattern changed suddenly when construction of the Fairfield-Suisun Army Airfield began in 1942. Hundreds of workers flooded into the community to construct the new base - and every one of them needed a place to stay.
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