Armijo Adobe (ca. 1847-48) Pen wash from pencil sketch by Nathan Coombs Sr. of Napa. Pen wash by Mary Pedri. [...]
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..
Locations include: Montezuma, Denverton, Suisun, Grisly Island, Rio Vista, Los Ulpinos Grant, Joices Island, Rowe Island, Long Point Island, Richs Island, Grays Island, Wheeler Island, Hammond Island, Chips Island, Van Sickles Island. 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. [...]
Nancy Geary - early Dixon character known as the "Ice Cream Lady."
View north of the 1846 Hastings adobe known as the Montezuma Adobe, also known as the Stratton House; circa 1962