Rush Ranch house, Potero Hills
Poterero Hills, Solano County California. Road to Rush Ranch Headquarters
Looking southeast from Tate Hill across the swimming pool toward the area of the California Medical Facility..
Vacaville Grammer School (Ulatis) on College Hill (Andrews Park). Second school to stand on same spot. Old brick school torn down by George Sharpe who built this one. Old school removed 1908..
Looking north to Vacaville across the intersection of Hwy-40 and Merchant Street. Picture taken from hill south of present I-80. Note old Vaca-Valley Bridge..
Senator Benjamin F. Rush came in 1852, with his parents to Solano County. Raised excellent trotting horses and Durham cattle on the Potrero Hills. Served four years as Solano Sheriff and 24 years as a State Senator. [...]
Your Introduction to Solano County, CA. A County whose history is shot through with the golden lore of a Golden State, whose cities fought to become that State's capital in its swashbuckling days. A County of breathlessly beautiful scenery and gigantic industrial plants, miles of orchards and countless acres of grain. Great herds of livestock and quay walls of mighty warships, prairie lands that became vast natural gas producing fields, a County of lakes and bays and sloughs and channels, picturesque valleys and rolling hills that is Solano County, America's Little California..
Old fruit wagon used for many years to haul packed fresh fruit from father Roger Hill Ranch to the Vacaville fruit sheds to be put on iced cars to East. - New York etc. Note: Rogers and Carle Loveland in Vacaville