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Colorful adventurer worked the spectrum from druggist to a blockade runner / Bowen, Jerry [47] [WAYITWAS-2000-47]
One of the lesser known characters that once lived in Vaca Valley was a man known as Capt. Richard H. Chinn. What little is known about him came mostly from stories he told about his life to friends [...]
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Pena Adobe has a colorful history / Delaplane, Kristin [395] [ECHOS-1998-395]
The Pena Adobe, a registered historical landmark, was the original home of Juan Felipe Pena, one of the first European settlers in the area in the 1840s. Today the city of Vacaville along with the Vacaville Heritage Council is working on making repairs and upgrading the environment so that the artifacts that relate to the adobe's heritage may be safely housed there. Volunteers are wanted for this project. The goal is to bring the adobe up to the standards of a quality museum-like structure and then maintain regular hours with volunteer docents.
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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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Rum-runners get caught in the delta / Bowen, Jerry [37] [WAYITWAS-2000-37]
For decades, various temperance societies throughout the United States worked to educate the public about the "evils of drink," with various degrees of success.
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On left is Constable J. Milton Talbert who captured the run-runner boat Hawk and the man on the right is a deputy Sheriff..
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Some of the evidence loaded for transport to San Francisco from raid of the rum-runner Hawk. The coatless man on left is not being hand-cuffed, but is just being searched for missing evidence. Posse member, Emory Olson is standing on truck..
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Nancy Geary - early Dixon character known as the "Ice Cream Lady."
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Nancy Geary - early Dixon character known as the "Ice Cream Lady."
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Benicia was known as the 'Athens of California' / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [831] [WAYITWAS-2008-831]
This column continues the story of Frances Anne Cooper Semple and Susan Cooper Wolfskill and life in 1850s Solano County. Their stories appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sept. 9, 1900 in commemoration of California's 50th anniversary.
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Memories of Chinese Shuffling Off to Work / Rico, John [895] [RICO-1981-895]
Aditty was frequently recited here by youngsters in our Yesteryear when the many male Chinese who resided here sported a hairdo known as a queue (pigtail). And, too, that's when long hair was an oddity on any young boy or man.
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