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Fairfield awakens from sleepy town status in 1942
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Dingler, Nancy
[476]
[RETROSPECT-2002-476]
The eventful year of 1942 affected everyone in the world, including the quiet little hamlet of Fairfield. The Army Airfield (Later named Travis Air Force Base) was under full construction and use. Permit applications for new apartment construction for the expanding population was granted.
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Benicia a bustling, growing town in 1856
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Delaplane, Kristin
[286]
[ECHOS-1996-286]
First of four parts New Year's 1856 was celebrated in Vacaville with a ball. The people were crowded in a local building to the point of suffocation. Editors of the Solano County Herald advised that their friends in that section of the county build a large hall for the purpose of future balls.
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Musical chairs in Fairfield
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Delaplane, Kristin
[229]
[ECHOS-1995-229]
Information for this article came from the Fairfield Library and the Vacaville Heritage Council. Benicia was the first county seat of Solano County. By 1858, it was clear a more centrally located county seat was needed to accommodate the growing population of the region.
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Waterman Park provided answer to wartime housing
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Dingler, Nancy
[486]
[RETROSPECT-2003-486]
Shortly after the beginning of World War II, the Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field was created. With it came construction workers who were housed in hastily erected "tar paper" barracks. As the war progressed, the mission of the airfield changed from reconnaissance to flying troops and supplies to the "Pacific theater" in our war against the Japanese.
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Port Chicago explosions revisited
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[98]
[WAYITWAS-2001-98]
One of the largest stateside military disasters of World War II took place on Solano County's doorstep, at the Port Chicago Naval Munitions base.
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Railroad brings Solano on track in 1860s
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Delaplane, Kristin
[267]
[ECHOS-1996-267]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council and Vacaville Public Library. First in a series The advent of rail had a deep and lasting effect on Solano County. Hubs sprang up that had never before existed. The town of Dixon was created solely to take advantage of the railroad as was Elmira, both succeeding as central shipping locations for the wheat and fruit-growing districts.
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Flood of 1849 forced residents to rooftops
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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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Library grows to bursting, then burns in blaze
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[452]
[WAYITWAS-2004-452]
Within a decade of its founding, the Solano County Free Library, under the guidance of Librarian Clara Dills, had become an established institution, valued throughout the county.
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County grows, mellows and heats up
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Delaplane, Kristin
[394]
[ECHOS-1998-394]
In 1869, a correspondent reported on the current changes due to the advent of the railroad:
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Travails of a prisoner of the Japanese in war
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Bowen, Jerry
[591]
[WAYITWAS-2005-591]
In my last column, I wrote about the fall of Corregidor to the Japanese on May 8, 1942, and the surrender of American forces on Bataan the following day.
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