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Elmira sits on the edge of history
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Bowen, Jerry
[97]
[WAYITWAS-2001-97]
Anyone who studies history becomes aware that access to an area has much to do with the growth and decline of towns and cities.
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Some communities only existed on paper
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Bowen, Jerry
[27]
[WAYITWAS-2000-27]
Over the last 150 years, towns and small communities have come and gone. Some only existed on paper and never got off the ground. There were many reasons for the rise and fall of these communities, including war, railroad and highway placement and changing industry, among others.
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Benicia boasts long, colorful history
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[22]
[WAYITWAS-2000-22]
The oldest town in Solano County is Benicia, which can boast of many firsts: first town founded in the county, first seat of the state Capitol, first U.S. arsenal west of the Mississippi, first Protestant church organized in California, first windmill developed - and on and on.
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Vallejo's Annie Lizzie Gill was a pioneer activist
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Bowen, Jerry
[839]
[WAYITWAS-2008-839]
As I start this series of columns, I have absolutely no idea on how many installments it will take to finish the story of a remarkable lady that lived in Vallejo, Annie Lizzie Gill who was born in 1863 on a farm outside the town of Oblong, Ill. Her story is a wonderful cavalcade of events and personal anecdotes before arriving in Vallejo in 1918, but since this is a local history column, I'll stick mostly to her life here in Solano County.
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Suisun City's Early History full of Drama
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Bowen, Jerry
[823]
[WAYITWAS-2008-823]
Suisun was a fast growing town from the 1870s to the 1890s. Loads of marble passed through Suisun from Judge Swan's marble quarry located about seven miles north of Suisun at Tolenas Springs en route to San Francisco. A few of the old Suisun families had 40-pound clocks encased in the marble. The mineral water there was bottled and sold, along with sarsaparilla in the bars of the period [...]
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Snapshots of an era
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Bowen, Jerry
[733]
[WAYITWAS-2007-733]
Among the collections at the Vacaville Heritage Council and the Solano County Genealogy Society at the Old Town Hall on East Main Street are yearbooks from Solano County Schools dating back as far as the late 1890s. These publications are a treasure that help historians gain some insight into past attitudes, styles of dress, and pride in school and community and to perhaps learn something valuable from the "good old days."
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Chipping away at island's name
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Bowen, Jerry
[185]
[WAYITWAS-2003-185]
Have you ever wondered how a certain location on a map came to be named? Maybe not. But more often than not, a fascinating story unravels when researching the origin of the name of an island, town, road, or canyon. Such was the case of a little-known island at the southern extreme of Solano County.
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Quake doesn't dim Vaca showcase
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[84]
[WAYITWAS-2001-84]
During the late 1880s and early 1890s, Vacaville residents eagerly tried to promote the town and their flourishing orchard industry throughout the United States in an effort to attract new settlers to move here.
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Silveyville rolls into Dixon when railroad arrives
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Delaplane, Kristin
[221]
[ECHOS-1995-221]
Information for this article came from the Dixon Historical Society collection and the Dixon Library archives. At one time Silveyville, had real expectations. Today it's a ghost town.
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Cholera plagued wagon trains on trip west
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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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