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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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Carrying on family's agricultural tradition
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Delaplane, Kristin
[412]
[ECHOS-1999-412]
"I am a fruit rancher and fourth-generation Vacavillian. My great-grandfather, George Sharpe, came here from England. He was a contractor and a builder and when the train stopped in Elmira, he decided the building opportunities were here. The towns were booming in the 1860s or 1870s [...]
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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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Thirsty Vallejo suffered dam dilemma
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Bowen, Jerry
[135]
[WAYITWAS-2002-135]
Near the turn of the century, Vallejo was experiencing a serious shortage of this valuable resource. Concerns rose about health and fire danger in the town.
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An 1879 tour saw a plethora of growers
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Delaplane, Kristin
[326]
[ECHOS-1997-326]
In the spring of 1879, reporters from the Weekly Solano Republican set out to explore the countryside in the Vacaville Township and the town of Vacaville. They described the various ranches and farms and who owned the land. Many of today's streets were named for these early growers.
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Loss of Capitol, decline of port end dreams
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Delaplane, Kristin
[228]
[ECHOS-1995-228]
Information for this article came from the Benicia Camel Barn Museum, Solano County Genealogical Society, Benicia Historical Society, and Vacaville Heritage Council (Part 2. Last week was the story of the founding of Benicia in 1848 by Robert Semple, who purchased the land from Gen. Vallejo. The first news of the Gold Rush was in Benicia [...]
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Dried onions: Basic ingredient in K-rations
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Delaplane, Kristin
[226]
[ECHOS-1995-226]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Museum, the Vacaville Heritage Council and The Reporter archives. Some events in a town's history leave a more memorable mark than was ever suspected at the time. Such is the story of Basic Vegetable Products. The original Vacaville location of Basic's operation was a tin shed on the Uhl ranch, where Shock's Furniture Interiors and Longs Drugs are currently situated on Monte Vista Avenue
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Meet Cleo Gordon Elementary school's namesake
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Dingler, Nancy
[463]
[RETROSPECT-2000-463]
Have you ever wondered how local places, like streets and schools get their names? For example, it is obvious that Fairfield High is named after the town, but did you know that Armijo High was named after the family that had the large Spanish land grant it sits on? Historically, people want to honor prominent, successful people by naming places for them.
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Glorious memories of the Nut Tree
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Bowen, Jerry
[163]
[WAYITWAS-2003-163]
Driving by the old Nut Tree the other day brought back a few memories as my 90-year-old mother, Iris, remarked, "What happened to the Nut Tree?"
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Hastings' dream house became a nightmare
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Bowen, Jerry
[74]
[WAYITWAS-2001-74]
The house on the corner of West 2nd and L street in Benicia was magnificent. Four stories tall and with 45 rooms, 21 of them bedrooms!
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