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Vaca's downtown bustled in late 1800s / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [60] [WAYITWAS-2001-60]
By the turn of the last century, the town of Vacaville had grown considerably and no longer resembled the sleepy little village of the late 1800s.
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Bustling with bachelors and much business / Delaplane, Kristin [356] [ECHOS-1997-356]
A list of eligible bachelors in Vacaville appeared in the Reporter to commemorate the Leap Year season. H.E. Baldwin, private and confidential secretary to G.N. Platt [...]
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Vaca street named after early builder / Delaplane, Kristin [323] [ECHOS-1997-323]
As a young man of 21, Peabody landed in Benicia in 1850 having made the trip on a clipper ship around The Horn. A carpenter by trade, he bought with him several frame houses and engaged in the business of selling and setting those houses to lots.
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Residences, businesses in Solano County, CA. 1878 Residences, businesses in Solano County, CA. 1878
1878

Locations include: Green Valley, Suisun, Green Valley, Grisly Island, Armijo Grant, Potrero Hills, Suscol Grant. Historical atlas map of Solano County, California. Compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys by Thompson and West. San Francisco, Cala. 1878. Thos. [...]

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Suisun City grows roots around it's businesses / Delaplane, Kristin [392] [ECHOS-1998-392]
Suisun City had its roots in the 1850s. Credit for the discovery of the area dates back to 1850, when Curtis Wilson and Dr. John Baker happened to sail up the winding Suisun Slough and they recorded their finding. The environment was mainly tule land populated with mud hens and a herd of elk.
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Parking meter roots deep for Vaca man / Delaplane, Kristin [389] [ECHOS-1998-389]
'My father Samuel Lee Miller Sr., who was born in 1886 in Greencastle, Ind., started in the radio business in the city of Chicago in 1920. His business was located in a three-story building in the Loop where he was a wholesaler of radio units and radio parts during the era of battery-controlled radio sets.
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Solano County communities busy in 1884 / Delaplane, Kristin [362] [ECHOS-1997-362]
The popular saloon owned by A.B. Miller, at the corner of Bush and Depot streets in Vacaville, was the scene of a major shooting in December 1884. Louis Sohn was killed - most felt deservedly so. Sohn was greatly angered when Nap Broughton's widow married J. Walter A. Gilmore, because Sohn had been determined to run her ranch himself.
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Suisun City the business hot spot / Delaplane, Kristin [282] [ECHOS-1996-282]
Early businesses were a diversified lot in the mid-1800s. Suisun City was the place to be in Solano County if you were opening a business. Ferrell and Miller's was a general store in Suisun. It carried a line of furnishing goods, fancy and staple dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, hats, caps, hardware, crockery, glassware and groceries.
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Vaca Fire Department list
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Residences, farms, businesses in Solano County, CA. 1878 Residences, farms, businesses in Solano County, CA. 1878
1878

Locations include: Residence and grounds of J.W. Jones, Esq., Benicia. Residence of D.L. Mann, Dixon, Cal. Residence of W.B. Towson, Vacaville. [...]

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