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The Patwins, the settlers and Lake Solano / Dingler, Nancy [491] [RETROSPECT-2004-491]
For thousands, if not millions, of years Putah Creek flowed through Berryessa Valley, and out Devil's Gate, meandering along the border between Yolo and Solano counties, on its way to the Delta. By 1957, a radical change would alter the ancient landscape.
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Big Rock, Putah Creek, now under Lake Berryessa
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Devil's Gate at Putah Creek where the Monticello Dam is now
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Old stone bridge over Putah Creek at the south end of Berryessa Valley, now under the lake. The creek was at flood stage..
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Indians, grizzlies succumb to newcomers / Delaplane, Kristin [256] [ECHOS-1995-256]
Information for this article came from the Solano Genealogy Society and the Yolo County Library. In early days, Putah Creek passed just south of what is now the city of Davis. There along the banks, Patwin Indians - the Pooewin - built their villages some 1,500 years ago. Archaeologists have determined that they lived in dome-shaped structures common to Patwin tribes [...]
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Solano has seen many changes / Dingler, Nancy [492] [RETROSPECT-2004-492]
The 1850s brought a major change to Suisun and the surrounding area that would alter the landscape forever. Ship captain, Josiah Wing purchased the "island" of Suisun from Curtis Wilson and Dr. John Baker in 1852, built a wharf and a warehouse, then had his house in San Francisco shipped up the slough and his family sent for. In partnership with John Owens, Captain Wing laid out the town of Suisun. They soon discovered that at low tide, Suisun was not an island, but connected to Fairfield by a strip of land, eventually named Union Ave.
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1916

1/16. Taken from front porch of A. W. Samuels ranch on w side of Putah creek opposite Montecello creek is at flood stage and snow on Mts [...]

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1917

August, 1917 - Alice Hilden (left) with unknown person; Roy Hilden at right; Scene at Devil's Gate at Putah Creek where the Montecello Dam is today
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1918

Samuels Springs at Lake Berryessa..
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Delving into Winters story with Vacaville / Bowen, Jerry [551] [WAYITWAS-2004-551]
The town of Winters, located just across the Yolo County line, shares its history with Vacaville in many ways. The earliest inhabitants of the area were Indians known as the Wintun, also known as Southern Patwin or Southern Wintun. They moved into the southern Sacramento Valley from the north some 1,200 years ago.
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