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Fires and family life at the Water Works / Bowen, Jerry [567] [WAYITWAS-2005-567]
Some of the most interesting local history comes from the people who lived it. Last year, during the Solano County Historical Society's Pioneer Days Celebration, I was very fortunate to meet Betty Davis who lives in Fairfield. While we were talking, she asked me if I would be interested in a family history that was written by her mother, Edith Lucille Venning.
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1991 1991

Fairfield Water Works
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1992 1992

Fairfield Water Works tanks
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History of the Vacaville Fire Department 1891-1985 History of the Vacaville Fire Department 1891-1985
1985

This project is a direct result of the desire of Fire Chief Robert A. Powell, the fourth paid Fire Chief of the Vacaville Fire Department, to have accumulated in one place the most accurate and complete history of the Department possible. Several sources of information were used in researching this work. The majority of the information came, however, from three sources: Vacaville's history book entitled "Vacavllle, the Herltage of a California Communlty" by Ronald H. [...]

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Go Long built a new life for his family in America / Delaplane, Kristin [433] [ECHOS-1999-433]
Nira Fong Wong's grandfather, Go Leong (also known as Go Long), was born an only child in 1846 in the village Dai Do Province of Canton, China. He migrated to America about 1860. He first found work in Marysville on the railroad. After a short time, he moved to Suisun Valley, where he took up farming, and became an established fruit farmer during the next 30 years.
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Life flowed on at the Fairfield waterworks / Bowen, Jerry [570] [WAYITWAS-2005-570]
Before I get into the meat of this column, I need to correct a mistake I made in the first segment. In the column I spelled Ms. Venning's middle name as "Lucille." It is spelled "Lucile."
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Life in 1860s flows along on land and water / Delaplane, Kristin [370] [ECHOS-1998-370]
In 1866, the county offices were held by the following people: County and probate judge was W.S. Wells; senator, L.B. Mizner; assemblyman, James M. Lemon; Sheriff E.F [...]
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Chinese pioneers make it big at 'Big Camp' / Delaplane, Kristin [327] [ECHOS-1997-327]
Information for this article came from material written by Peter Leung of the Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis and Tony Water, a doctoral candidate at U.C. Davis' Sociology Department. All portions of this unpublished work "Chinese Pioneer Farming Families in Suisun Valley, California" are copyrighted by Peter Leung and Tony Water.
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5013 5013

Lucille Venning, Buck Burton, Stewart and Margaret Fallman
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Goosen did well by the city of Fairfield / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [564] [WAYITWAS-2005-564]
In 1886, Henry Goosen opened a blacksmith shop and general hardware store in Cordelia. He had a strong background in well drilling, pumps, steam machinery and related areas. As such, he had become interested in the Fairfield Water Works, located on Empire Street behind the Courthouse. He was in the process of overhauling the aging machinery, when a devastating fire destroyed the plant on Christmas Eve 1901 [...]
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