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Solano History 26 records found  1 - 10nextend  jump to record: Search took 0.00 seconds. 
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Bridges built over troubling waters in town / Delaplane, Kristin [369] [ECHOS-1998-369]
Dingley's Mill in Green Valley changed hands and the new owners had plans to enlarge the establishment and employ steam as the power source. George Dingley was forced to abandon his mill through a foreclosure eviction notice. When he originally purchased the land, the seller failed to disclose the mortgage liability.
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1909

Vacaville Old Town Hall within a year after being built
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Ranch Towns In Two Areas / Wichels, Ernest [854] [WICHELS-1964-854]
Most people think of Vallejo strictly a shipyard city. Many find it difficult to believe that once it qualified as a "ranch town." Ranchowners, the hundreds of employes in dairy operations, cattle and sheep raising, and grain and hay harvests, formed a vital segment of Vallejo's economy in early days.
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KPIX Channel 5 Town of Cement KPIX Channel 5 Town of Cement
2009

"Eye On The Bay" host Brian Hackney interviews local historian Jerry Bowen at the site of the old town of Cement. Cement was a company town that operated near Fairfield, CA from 1902 to 1927, which produced most of the portland cement used for area bridges and buildings..


Running Time: 03:33
Video Format: 720x480 4/3, 29.97 - DVD
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Town 'built around the shipping of fruit' / Delaplane, Kristin [338] [ECHOS-1997-338]
The following are excerpts from an oral history with T. Robert Boone Hawkins, interviewed June 1977. The Hawkins first came here in 1852, with my great-grandfather Arculus C. Hawkins [...]
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Town flourished, then faded on the river of time / Bowen, Jerry [580] [WAYITWAS-2005-580]
In my last column, we saw that the settlement of the Montezuma Hills was a long and troubled process. One of the more interesting claims made for a grant of land was the infamous "Luco Claim."
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Fairfield awakens from sleepy town status in 1942 / Dingler, Nancy [476] [RETROSPECT-2002-476]
The eventful year of 1942 affected everyone in the world, including the quiet little hamlet of Fairfield. The Army Airfield (Later named Travis Air Force Base) was under full construction and use. Permit applications for new apartment construction for the expanding population was granted.
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Floods and fire made many idle roomers / Delaplane, Kristin [274] [ECHOS-1996-274]
Second in a series In 1857, the town of Rio Vista was founded, with J.M. Sidwell as one of the original settlers. It was in that year that Sidwell built a hotel. The fate of that hotel was to be complete destruction, along with the rest of the area's structures, when the flood of 1862 hit with such force it drowned out the entire town.
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Fire in 1909 left Vacaville without a hotel / Bowen, Jerry [214] [WAYITWAS-2004-214]
For years, as Vacaville grew during the nineteenth century, volunteer firemen had pressured the town trustees for efficient firefighting equipment, but with little success. By 1908, Vacaville had two hose carts, a town water system with a few hydrants and chemical fire extinguishers strategically placed around the downtown area.
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Solano townships boomed, then went bust / Delaplane, Kristin [235] [ECHOS-1995-235]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Museum, Vacaville Heritage Council and Vacaville Public Library. Solano County was one of the original 27 counties organized when California became a state in 1850. Providing water transport by the Sacramento River and its many sloughs and with some of the richest farming land, it was an ideal place to establish town sites. The towns were settled by men from the gold fields and those who came to California as pioneers.
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