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Vacaville's Shaky Beginning / Bowen, Jerry [15] [WAYITWAS-2000-15]
For all you history buffs in the area it is a well-known fact that on Aug. 21, 1850, Juan Manuel Vaca sold nine square miles of land for $3,000 to William McDaniel, with the provision that one square mile be designated as the new town of Vacaville. In addition, McDaniel was to deed back to Vaca 1,055 lots in the new town. Right?
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Ranchers carve homestead from wilderness / Delaplane, Kristin [419] [ECHOS-1999-419]
''In 1892, William Henry Samuels homesteaded this ranch, which is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Part of the ranch is in Napa County. When they first moved up here it was mostly brush and rocks and they raised sheep. The sheep were slaughtered right here and the meat taken down to town [...]
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Floods and fire made many idle roomers / Delaplane, Kristin [274] [ECHOS-1996-274]
Second in a series In 1857, the town of Rio Vista was founded, with J.M. Sidwell as one of the original settlers. It was in that year that Sidwell built a hotel. The fate of that hotel was to be complete destruction, along with the rest of the area's structures, when the flood of 1862 hit with such force it drowned out the entire town.
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Winters easily could have had another name / Bowen, Jerry [554] [WAYITWAS-2004-554]
In my last column we visited some early history centering around the Winters area and what were the beginnings of a bustling town named Buckeye northeast of today's Winters.
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How little Dickson became Dixon / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [28] [WAYITWAS-2000-28]
Dixon is one of the newest towns in Solano County. Its official founding date is 1868. Years earlier, in 1853, 53-year old Thomas Dickson arrived in the area from Iowa, accompanied by livestock, three wagons, five children and his pregnant wife.
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Birds Landing Store erected in 1875 by Frank and Dinkelspiel. Town first known as New Jerusalem. John Bird erected a grain warehouse and; wharf on Montezuma Slough in 1869. Bird first postmaster in 1875 and; the village became known as Birds Landing. [...]

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Delving into Winters story with Vacaville / Bowen, Jerry [551] [WAYITWAS-2004-551]
The town of Winters, located just across the Yolo County line, shares its history with Vacaville in many ways. The earliest inhabitants of the area were Indians known as the Wintun, also known as Southern Patwin or Southern Wintun. They moved into the southern Sacramento Valley from the north some 1,200 years ago.
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Memories of the Fairfield area / Bowen, Jerry [198] [WAYITWAS-2004-198]
Memoirs often provide valuable insight about the past that may seem of little importance when an individual first writes them. Today, with the last remains of the old company town of Cement rapidly disappearing under the onslaught of new development, a way of life is also being relegated to the dusty archives of history to be remembered only in the minds of a few old-timers and people who enjoy learning about the past.
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Elmira sits on the edge of history / Bowen, Jerry [97] [WAYITWAS-2001-97]
Anyone who studies history becomes aware that access to an area has much to do with the growth and decline of towns and cities.
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Early village's rural assets drew raves from many / 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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