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(83)
Early settlers took golden side trip
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Bowen, Jerry
[151]
[WAYITWAS-2003-151]
In my last column, we left the Barbours and the Alfords in Sonoma, building homes after a rigorous trip across the continent to California. A chance meeting with another Solano County historical figure, Thomas O. Larkin, resulted in a complete change of plans for the two families.
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Pioneers took the road less traveled
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Bowen, Jerry
[129]
[WAYITWAS-2002-129]
For several years I've had the pleasure of traveling many sections of the old trails that led the pioneers to California.
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Part 2-Spanish Troops Marched In
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Bowen, Jerry
[673]
[WAYITWAS-2006-673]
When I ended my last column I said, "Second-Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga with seventeen soldiers and an auxiliary force of Christian Indians of unknown size attacked the Suisun force of 120 fighting men on May 22, 1810 near Rockville." Here again is a misconception of history perhaps read out of context. It wasn't at Rockville. It was at or near today's Suisun City.
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Twists and turns on the trail of bygone days
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Bowen, Jerry
[721]
[WAYITWAS-2007-721]
History is a dynamic subject with many traps regarding accuracy along the way. A lot of items related to history in Solano County have popped up lately, so, I thought that I would take the opportunity to talk about some of those bits and pieces.
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Vacaville settler tells of his travails
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Bowen, Jerry
[623]
[WAYITWAS-2006-623]
When we last left the Pleasant Hill wagon train, it had split into three groups because of the increased scarcity of feed for the animals as they continued their weary trek toward Independence Rock, the next major landmark.
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Vaca streets named for earliest settlers
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Delaplane, Kristin
[321]
[ECHOS-1997-321]
In 1852, Mason Wilson and his wife, Luzena, a North Carolina native, arrived from the gold fields to harvest the wild hay in Solano that was selling for $150 a ton in San Francisco. Traveling in a covered wagon, they arrived in Vacaville and set up their rig on Main Street.
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It was primitive, but settlers celebrated Fourth
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[865]
[WAYITWAS-2008-865]
Some of my recent columns followed the story of Frances Ann Copper, as told to the San Francisco Chronicle on the occasion of California's 50th anniversary in 1900.
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Early California gold rush pioneer
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Bowen, Jerry
[125]
[WAYITWAS-2002-125]
Some of Solano County's early residents are relatively unknown locally but when you look into their past you find that they left an impressive trail of actions and deeds.
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Towns vanished when railroad passed them by
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Bowen, Jerry
[25]
[WAYITWAS-2000-25]
I have always been fascinated by old maps and the potential stories they reveal. Working at the Solano County Archives is especially intriguing because of its numerous old maps. Many of you already know something about the towns that will be described in a series of articles to follow, but for newcomers to Solano County or its history, it won't hurt to get acquainted with the communities that once served travelers and '49ers in the later 1800s. My thanks to James Davis for a suggestion about the town of Cement, which became the catalyst of this series of articles.
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As a boy, Vallejo attended a harsh school
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Bowen, Jerry
[628]
[WAYITWAS-2006-628]
You can thank your lucky stars you weren't born when Mariano Vallejo entered the world of the Spanish dons in early California.
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