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25.
(79)
'Poorhouse' rich source of memories
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Bowen, Jerry
[113]
[WAYITWAS-2002-113]
In 1892, an article appearing in the Vallejo Weekly Chronicle gave a rather graphic account of the conditions of Solano's first County Hospital. Built in the mid 1870s, it was then located near where Tabor Park is today in Fairfield. The property occupied by the "poorhouse," as it was commonly called, consisted of 60 acres in that area with wind breaks of eucalyptus trees.
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(79)
Book aimed to lure Easterners with fruit tales
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[43]
[WAYITWAS-2000-43]
Are the people in New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Boston and elsewhere, who have paid a dollar a pound for California cherries in April, or who in 1887 ate nearly 2,000 carloads of California peaches, pears, plums, apricots and grapes, curious to know whence a good part of these fruits come, or to learn the manner of their growth and the appearance of the country?
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(78)
The White Sulphur Spring
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Wichels, Ernest
[850]
[WICHELS-1964-850]
The "day camps" at our Blue Rock Springs recreation spot now become a memory with the opening of another school semester. Some 60 years ago this time of the year marked the end of the "summer camp" for scores of Vallejo families.
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28.
(78)
Indian trails transformed into highway
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Delaplane, Kristin
[303]
[ECHOS-1996-303]
In the days when the Indians lived on this land of Solano County, they lived as gathers and traders. Their trade routes were well-established, allowing for trading between the coastal Indians and the inland groups. The routes the Indians traveled in part resemble some of the roadways that exist today.
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(78)
Brandy and hides were Jose Armijo's trade
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Delaplane, Kristin
[271]
[ECHOS-1996-271]
First in a series Early oral tradition has it that Jose Francisco Armijo was taken to the land of Suisun Valley as early as 1828 by Cayetano Juarez. Juarez said he had lived near the area since about 1821. The next report of Armijo being in the area is as a merchant in 1835.
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(77)
Greely Said 'Go West' - No Mention of Vaca
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Rico, John
[877]
[RICO-1981-877]
Go West, Young Man, and Grow Up With the Country - This bit of timely advice is credited to journalist Horace Greeley, but research actually attributes the saying to John Souls about 1851. Greeley used the quote in an article he wrote for the New York Tribune.
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(77)
Early Media
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Wichels, Ernest
[852]
[WICHELS-1964-852]
It is difficult for most of us, living in the year 1964, to realize the advantages we possess over those available to Vallejo residents or Mare Island personnel just a hundred years ago. We take our freeways, radio and TV, dial telephones with direct connections to New York or Hawaii, automobiles, airplanes, etc., for granted.
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(77)
Woman recounts time living in Suisun Valley
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Delaplane, Kristin
[418]
[ECHOS-1999-418]
'My father, Chun Tim, came into America in 1873 at 20 years old. He traveled from his village, Sek Keh, to Hong Kong and took a boat to San Francisco. The trip was four months. Toward the end their supplies were getting low.
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Oral histories hearken back to simpler times
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Delaplane, Kristin
[354]
[ECHOS-1997-354]
The early days for parks and recreation taken from an oral history with Lyston Johnson. 'My parents came here in 1917. My father worked in a grocery store down on Georgia Street. He delivered groceries seven days a week for $15 a week [...]
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(77)
Gen. Vallejo sets out to tame the territories
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Delaplane, Kristin
[251]
[ECHOS-1995-251]
First in a series Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council, Solano Genealogical Society and Solano Historian. Gen. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, born in 1808, was to become the most prominent man in Northern California. He could date his ancestors back to the days of Columbus, when Alonzo Vallejo, admiral to the Spanish King, escorted Columbus back to Spain.
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