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Solano History 14 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.04 seconds. 
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4180 4180
1920s

Passenger Train 1 at Vanden Station (Fairfield, CA)
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2921 2921

Autos ar Fairfield Station
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4188 4188

Shasta Dayligh train headed west contacted large truck at the Rio Vista crossing. CPC in background, fronting on Union Ave., Fairfield CA..
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The Vanden Station Train Wreck / Bowen, Jerry [44] [WAYITWAS-2000-44]
When you read the old newspapers, it's somewhat astonishing to see how often people were injured or killed by trains in the early part of the century. Inattention, lack of adequate warnings at railroad crossings, company policies, and the insane urge to "beat" the trains through the intersection were often the reasons for the accidents.
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Solano's citizens full of vigor in 1870 / Delaplane, Kristin [397] [ECHOS-1998-397]
In 1870, Solano County was the eighth county in the state in regard to population. Powers and George A. Gillespie were operating the Weekly Solano Republican newspaper, which was published in Suisun City. George's brother, E.F. Gillespie, was the justice of peace [...]
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Population lifted off after airfield built / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [728] [WAYITWAS-2007-728]
Construction of the Fairfield-Suisun Army Airfield in 1943 brought a large number of new residents to the local communities, doubling population overnight. Calls went out for rentals and vacant rooms with only minimal results. With the base scheduled to open soon, personnel stationed there would bring their families as well.
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Solano sees violence at the polls, piers and prairies / Delaplane, Kristin [368] [ECHOS-1998-368]
In 1865, Judge William Kean Weston died at age 56 in Fairfield. He had been born in Lincoln County, Maine, in 1808 and been trained in the mechanics trade. He had settled in Augusta, Maine, where he worked as a contractor and then as a wholesale hardware dealer. He also studied law.
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3225 3225

Political event at train station, Dixon, CA
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0781 0781
1915

Snowball in Elmira at old S. P. station with steam train
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0775 0775
1915

Plow mules on Charlie Peters ranch north of Vacaville on Browns Valley Road. Sign on barn roof advertising Mail Pouch Tobacco; sign located so passengers on trains could read it
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