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Christmas customs of the past
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[768]
[WAYITWAS-2007-768]
There are few recordings of how early Solano County settlers prepared for or celebrated the Christmas season. Customs surely varied widely based on each family's immigration background. Taking a day off from work and having the means to create a well-cooked meal likely were the highlights for early pioneers.
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Lawyer lured by gold, stayed to become top judge
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[609]
[WAYITWAS-2005-609]
One name tied to early Solano County history is that of Judge John Currey. In our area, he made his name during the 1850s as a lawyer, working with many of the settlers in solving their legal issues surrounding the Mexican land grants and the ensuing settlement disputes.
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Treasure other than gold lured immigrants
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[561]
[WAYITWAS-2005-561]
Many of Solano County's pioneers were lured to California by the Gold Rush and its economic opportunities, before settling down instead to cultivate the rich soils.
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Wanderlust strikes a son of early Vacaville
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[213]
[WAYITWAS-2004-213]
This is the final column on the family of Luzena and Mason Wilson and their four children. The information is based on the research by Fern Henry in her book "My Checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California."
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Photo of Peter and Jennie Wimmer form "The California Gold Book"
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Pioneer prospered with cattle, stores
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Delaplane, Kristin
[322]
[ECHOS-1997-322]
Suisun's pioneer John B. Lemon was born 1825 in Indiana and received a rudimentary education. At age 24 he was a clerk in a general store when news of the gold discovery in California reached Indiana and his imagination. In 1849, Lemon left home to travel by mule train to seek his fortune.
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The long journey to California in 1846
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Dingler, Nancy
[480]
[RETROSPECT-2003-480]
In the quiet shade and shadows of the pioneer Rockville cemetery stand two stone monuments. Inscribed on the smaller rough-hewn, mossy natural headstone is the name Alford. Placed nearby is a little "stone house" quarried from the same stone that makes up the cemetery chapel.
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Council continues historic journey
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Bowen, Jerry
[582]
[WAYITWAS-2005-582]
One of the folks who recently moved to Vacaville dropped into the Vacaville Heritage Council in the Old Town Hall the other day and asked if we were a museum of some sort.
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Daring runs through Solano delivered
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[164]
[WAYITWAS-2003-164]
During the early years of the Gold Rush, settlers were faced with a society that as yet could not offer many of the services they had been used to back East, such as banking and postal service.
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Gold Rushed Vacaville's Beginning
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Bowen, Jerry
[17]
[WAYITWAS-2000-17]
Gold has been described in a host of fanciful terms. It has been said to be the folly of man, the savior of civilization, a barbarous relic, the root of all evil and the symbol of perfection.
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