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Solano History 29 records found  beginprevious20 - 29  jump to record: Search took 0.02 seconds. 
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{Large Negative File) Lagoon Valley. Picture taken from back and south of swimming pool. The effect of prune blossoms. Portia Hill Ranch - Cooks place..
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4880 4880

Iwama Market. Site of the Pierce Ranch horse barns, blacksmith shop, bunkhouse and Chinese quarters. Many of these structures were lost in one of the big fires that swept the Rockville Hills and followed down Suisun Creek. The present structure was 1927..
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WY0149e WY0149e
1964

View of Adobe from hill top. Divided Highway 80 in background. Caretaker's mobile home in northeast corner of grounds. Roof of La Paloma Motel visible above trees west of Highway 80..
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1880

Old fruit wagon used for many years to haul packed fresh fruit from father Roger Hill Ranch to the Vacaville fruit sheds to be put on iced cars to East. - New York etc. Note: Rogers and Carle Loveland in Vacaville
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WY0157 WY0157

Senator Benjamin F. Rush came in 1852, with his parents to Solano County. Raised excellent trotting horses and Durham cattle on the Potrero Hills. Served four years as Solano Sheriff and 24 years as a State Senator. [...]

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1847-8

Armijo Adobe (ca. 1847-48) Pen wash from pencil sketch by Nathan Coombs Sr. of Napa. Pen wash by Mary Pedri. [...]

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Montezuma outlasts scam, shady characters / Delaplane, Kristin [237] [ECHOS-1995-237]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Museum, Vacaville Heritage Council and Solano County Genealogical Society. First of two parts The Montezuma Township consisted of 75 square miles and was bounded by Denverton on the north, Rio Vista on the east, the Sacramento River to the south and Suisun to the west. The towns in the township were Bird's Landing and Collinsville, which were located on the rolling hills known as the Montezuma Hills.
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Tracing ranch ties through generations / Delaplane, Kristin [416] [ECHOS-1999-416]
'My mother's grandfather, John Wesley Hill, came from Missouri in 1847. He rode up here when the oats would come up to the top of the horse's back. He says, 'That's good enough for me,' and he squatted on some land. His main thing was raising cattle.
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Solano enjoyed glorious spring in 1856 / Delaplane, Kristin [287] [ECHOS-1996-287]
Second in a series Springtime 1856: gardening chores were on people's minds. The editors of the Solano County Herald approvingly noted that citizens were taking advantage of the pleasant weather to improve their lots by planting trees and flower and vegetable gardens. Garden Seeds were the hot item at the Benicia Drug Store and Judge and Co. at the Bunker Hill House was set to do business gardening, teaming, well digging and whitewashing.
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Cholera plagued wagon trains on trip west / Bowen, Jerry [621] [WAYITWAS-2006-621]
In my last article, we began following the long wagon trip to California in 1849 with James S. Pleasants and his family. They had named the wagon train the Pleasant Hill Wagon Train in honor of the town they had been living near in Missouri.
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