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Mare Island fostered many stories / Bowen, Jerry [187] [WAYITWAS-2003-187]
Last March, my fellow history columnist Goerke-Shrode, Sabine wrote an article on Mare Island, but I thought I would expand on it a little with a few stories about the ships and men who were part of the island's history, similar to "the rest of the story" as radio commentator Paul Harvey would say.

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WY0160a

Proposed route of V and; N Railroad-Views along the site of the V and; N Railroad - Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, California..

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WY0159l

Proposed route of V and; N Railroad - Proposed route to Mare Island Channel, Vallejo , California..

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'Glasgow' pushed for Mare Island / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [154] [WAYITWAS-2003-154]
From 1848 until 1850, the U.S. Navy conducted an extensive survey to determine whether to install a naval shipyard on Mare Island. Once the survey results were determined to be satisfactory, the United States government went ahead and purchased the island in January of 1853.

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Sale of Mare Island complicated / Bowen, Jerry [137] [WAYITWAS-2002-137]
The text of the deed to purchase Mare Island on Jan. 4, 1853, and recorded April 18, 1853, began as follows:

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Solano-Napa Earthquakes / Wichels, Ernest [843] [WICHELS-1965-843]
Last Sunday a devastating tremor rocked Chile; on Monday, it was the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. We are in the spring period of past earthquakes in Solano and Napa counties. Most of them have been in this eight-week period of March and April.

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First structure on Mare Island, U.S.S Drydock, ship shown Thetis

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Cmdr. Farragut, Navy call Mare Island home / Delaplane, Kristin [254] [ECHOS-1995-254]
Last week: The discovery of Mare Island, how it got its name and finally being selected as the site of a West Coast Navy yard. Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council and Shipyard Historian's files. The day the Farragut party arrived at Mare Island - Sept. 16, 1854 - stands as the official date that the Navy took possession of the island with Commander David Glasgow Farragut in command to commence building the Navy Yard.

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Mare Island named for general's swamped steed / Delaplane, Kristin [253] [ECHOS-1995-253]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council, Shipyard's Historian's Files and Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. First in a series In 1775, Don Perez Ayala, described as a dashing young Spanish lieutenant, was the first to sail through the Golden Gate. He and his crew were aboard the gunboat San Carlos.

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Vallejo - 8 x 10 glass plate. Same as 3080, only reversed. Mare Island drydock - dedication of ship. Several national flags draped