A large sketch of the Carquinez Straits and San Pablo Bay with the town of Benicia in 1885. Several notable structures are present such as Benicia City Hall, Turner and Eckley Ship Yard, Fire Department Building, Carquinez Packing Company, Palace Hotel, St. Augustine College, and the Bank of Benicia..
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..
San Francisco, California - 1906 earthquake and fire, prints from original 1906 negatives. Corner of Kearney and Geary - Lotta's fountain and Chronicle building to left by George Hanscom
San Francisco and Bay
San Francisco bay
The Montezuma I and II project area lies in the western portion of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, for the most part in the area known as the Montezuma Hills. The principal purpose of this research effort has been to provide PG E with information which would have allowed the company to complete requirements for Application For Certification to the California Energy Commission. The cultural resources investigation is considered part of the broad environmental review process necessary under CEC guidelines..
December 1987 edition of the Solano Historian Magazine. This issue contains the following articles: The California Pacific Railroad by Thomas Lucy, From Ranch to Winslow Terrace - Recollections of an early Vallejo by Gertrude Winslow Hudson, Oar Power and Sail - A Brief History of the Vallejo Yacht Club by C. Thomas Hosley, USS Constitution Visits Vallejo - Mare Island by Sue Lemmon, The Trials of Captain Waterman by Matthew Fountain, and a welcome message by Sue Lemmon, SCHS President..