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Towns vanished when railroad passed them by
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Bowen, Jerry
[25]
[WAYITWAS-2000-25]
I have always been fascinated by old maps and the potential stories they reveal. Working at the Solano County Archives is especially intriguing because of its numerous old maps. Many of you already know something about the towns that will be described in a series of articles to follow, but for newcomers to Solano County or its history, it won't hurt to get acquainted with the communities that once served travelers and '49ers in the later 1800s. My thanks to James Davis for a suggestion about the town of Cement, which became the catalyst of this series of articles.
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Reporters took probing tour into country
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Delaplane, Kristin
[325]
[ECHOS-1997-325]
In the spring of 1879, staff from the Suisun City's Solano Republican set out to explore the countryside. Their trip started with a train ride to Bridgeport, present-day Cordelia. Along the route they viewed the orchards then in bloom. Once in Bridgeport they stopped in at each of the town's business establishments.
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1909 fires ravage towns, but Presbyterian church is saved
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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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Vacaville in Ashes
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Bowen, Jerry
[35]
[WAYITWAS-2000-35]
June 6, 1877. The north wind was hot and harsh on the dry landscape surrounding the small town of Vacaville. At the southwest end of town, Tom Wilson had just returned from Suisun, put his horse in the barn and gone into the house. It was quiet in their home because his mother, Luzena, and sister were visiting Yosemite [...]
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Vacaville's Shaky Beginning
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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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Floods and fire made many idle roomers
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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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Suisun City becomes city of enterprise
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Delaplane, Kristin
[396]
[ECHOS-1998-396]
The 1870s were to be a prosperous time for Solano County. Many of those early pioneers were realizing their dreams and had become respected citizens. Suisun City was the major town for enterprise, but several businesses were also established in Vallejo, and Benicia was still a focal point for business.
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One shove destroyed original Vacaville jail
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Delaplane, Kristin
[264]
[ECHOS-1995-264]
Last in a series Dating back to at least 1879, one of the jobs of Dixon's marshal was the collection of town taxes and license fees from the hotels and saloons. The marshal then billed the city a percentage. This was a practice in all towns. Oftentimes, there would be a bit of a squabble between the various lawmen - sheriff, constables and marshals - to see who would collect these fees.
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Solano townships boomed, then went bust
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Delaplane, Kristin
[235]
[ECHOS-1995-235]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Museum, Vacaville Heritage Council and Vacaville Public Library. Solano County was one of the original 27 counties organized when California became a state in 1850. Providing water transport by the Sacramento River and its many sloughs and with some of the richest farming land, it was an ideal place to establish town sites. The towns were settled by men from the gold fields and those who came to California as pioneers.
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Suisun City's Early History full of Drama
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Bowen, Jerry
[823]
[WAYITWAS-2008-823]
Suisun was a fast growing town from the 1870s to the 1890s. Loads of marble passed through Suisun from Judge Swan's marble quarry located about seven miles north of Suisun at Tolenas Springs en route to San Francisco. A few of the old Suisun families had 40-pound clocks encased in the marble. The mineral water there was bottled and sold, along with sarsaparilla in the bars of the period [...]
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