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11.
(78)
Vaca Valley's fruit industry comes of age
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Delaplane, Kristin
[360]
[ECHOS-1997-360]
In October 1884, Raleigh Barcar took over as publisher of The Reporter. Publisher and founder, James McClain, claimed declining health made it necessary for him to leave the business. The Reporter moved to the back of Kinsmill's harness shop and realtors Lyon and Platt moved to the Reporter's old stand on the Triangle lot.
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Solano sprouted food, good times in 1864
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Delaplane, Kristin
[349]
[ECHOS-1997-349]
According to the 1864 assessment, the total value of property in Solano County was $2,629,185.12. The taxes would come to $90,766.33. About 1,000 tons of wheat and 200 tons of barley were stored in Lewis Pierce's warehouse in Suisun that early fall. In addition, a large quantity had already been shipped to San Francisco.
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Fruit-growers, robbers savor trains' arrival
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Delaplane, Kristin
[268]
[ECHOS-1996-268]
Information for this article came from the Western Railway Museum and the Vacaville Heritage Council. Second in a series In 1869, the Vallejo Street Car Co. began operation as a horse-car line going from the business district to the train depot in north Vallejo. It proved to be a poor business venture, as the car had difficulty staying on the tracks.
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Old man Carson with deer. Father of Mrs. John Robert McCrory..
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Town 'built around the shipping of fruit'
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Delaplane, Kristin
[338]
[ECHOS-1997-338]
The following are excerpts from an oral history with T. Robert Boone Hawkins, interviewed June 1977. The Hawkins first came here in 1852, with my great-grandfather Arculus C. Hawkins [...]
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Chinese pioneers make it big at 'Big Camp'
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Delaplane, Kristin
[327]
[ECHOS-1997-327]
Information for this article came from material written by Peter Leung of the Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis and Tony Water, a doctoral candidate at U.C. Davis' Sociology Department. All portions of this unpublished work "Chinese Pioneer Farming Families in Suisun Valley, California" are copyrighted by Peter Leung and Tony Water.
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Vaca streets named for earliest settlers
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Delaplane, Kristin
[321]
[ECHOS-1997-321]
In 1852, Mason Wilson and his wife, Luzena, a North Carolina native, arrived from the gold fields to harvest the wild hay in Solano that was selling for $150 a ton in San Francisco. Traveling in a covered wagon, they arrived in Vacaville and set up their rig on Main Street.
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Pena descendant was active in local affairs
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Bowen, Jerry
[834]
[WAYITWAS-2008-834]
In 1868 Juan Felipe Pena's granddaughter, Maria Delores Pena, married John Patton. John's father, Albert Lyon, first arrived in the Vacaville area in 1847 and settled north of the Pena Adobe. Lyon Road is named after the Lyon family. His son, John Patton, married Maria Delores Pena on June 2, 1868, and they had a son, John Edward Lyon, who married Josephine Hanna Murray [...]
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Trees sparse before eucalyptus arrived
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[708]
[WAYITWAS-2007-708]
The California landscape that greeted the first missionaries and later the people lured west in the Gold Rush was very different from the one we are familiar with today.
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'Good old days' were not always good
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Bowen, Jerry
[195]
[WAYITWAS-2003-195]
We like to reminisce about the "good old days" and indeed many of the earlier times were in fact just that.
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