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Solano History 17 records found  previous11 - 17  jump to record: Search took 0.02 seconds. 
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Looking back on the birth of the Air Force / 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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1909 fires ravage towns, but Presbyterian church is saved / Dingler, Nancy [456] [RETROSPECT-2000-456]
It was a typical hot summer in the year 1909, when a conflagration of massive proportions began early Tuesday morning on July 13, behind the Munroe's Fairfield drugstore.
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Now going strong, Vallejo Maritime Academy started out shaky / Dingler, Nancy [552] [RETROSPECT-2004-552]
A record number of students are enrolled at the California Maritime Academy. The academy, otherwise known as Cal Maritime, is a campus in the California State University system.
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Solano setters were diverse from the start / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [2] [WAYITWAS-2000-2]
Today begins a new column focusing on Solano County history. Each week this year we celebrate the sesquicentennial of Solano County - one of the original 27 counties of California, created in February 1850.
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Two exceptional teachers in Solano history / Dingler, Nancy [573] [RETROSPECT-2005-573]
March is women's history month, and to that end, I sought stories on outstanding women in our county's history. The Solano Historian of May 1992, profiled two school teachers from Benicia: Mary E. Farmer and Ellen Foley.
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War brings some prosperity to Fairfield, region / Dingler, Nancy [505] [RETROSPECT-2004-505]
FAIRFIELD'For a decade that started with death and ended in depression, the 1920s brought wealth, culture and development to many of Solano County.
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The Alfords, Barbours and Rockville stone chapel / Dingler, Nancy [481] [RETROSPECT-2003-481]
With adventure in their hearts, Landy and Sarah Alford, along with their daughters, Virginia and Nancy, left behind family, church and friends to join a wagon train headed for California, three years before the lure of gold would prompt the great western migration.
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