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Solano History 8 records found  Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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Parking meter roots deep for Vaca man / Delaplane, Kristin [389] [ECHOS-1998-389]
'My father Samuel Lee Miller Sr., who was born in 1886 in Greencastle, Ind., started in the radio business in the city of Chicago in 1920. His business was located in a three-story building in the Loop where he was a wholesaler of radio units and radio parts during the era of battery-controlled radio sets.
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0421 0421

presbertrian church, northwest corner of Main and Parker. Just before being torn down to make way for Safeway store. April 1962. Note parking meters [...]

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Long family roots grew on Winters fruit ranch / Delaplane, Kristin [434] [ECHOS-1999-434]
Melvin Fong and Nira Fong Wong are the grandchildren of Go Long, who started fruit farming in the Suisun Valley in the 1860s.
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Suisun City grows roots around it's businesses / Delaplane, Kristin [392] [ECHOS-1998-392]
Suisun City had its roots in the 1850s. Credit for the discovery of the area dates back to 1850, when Curtis Wilson and Dr. John Baker happened to sail up the winding Suisun Slough and they recorded their finding. The environment was mainly tule land populated with mud hens and a herd of elk.
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1886

Packing shed on Alexander McKevitt's Ranch. Shipping grapes to Chicago 8 Nov., 1886. A. McKevitt (father of Frank B [...]

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Vaca street named after early builder / Delaplane, Kristin [323] [ECHOS-1997-323]
As a young man of 21, Peabody landed in Benicia in 1850 having made the trip on a clipper ship around The Horn. A carpenter by trade, he bought with him several frame houses and engaged in the business of selling and setting those houses to lots.
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Fairfield Civic Center Dedication Program Fairfield Civic Center Dedication Program
1971

The first step toward a Fairfield Civic Center began on November 24, 1953, when the City CouncIl voted to proceed with purchase from the Federal Government of a thirty-three acre site just north of the City's Central Business District. This site was well known as Wateman Park and had been a World War II temporary housing project of 315 unots with a central recreation center and cafeteria. At the time of purchase the City Council intended that the site become Fairfield's Civic Center. The City Hall building is the largest of the five building complex. [...]

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Bert Hughes: historian, family man, community treasure / Dingler, Nancy [475] [RETROSPECT-2002-475]
This is going to be a very personal column today - a tribute to Bert Hughes, who recently passed away. Bertram Augustus Hughes was a true Renaissance man and will be greatly missed by local historians. If any one person could leave a deep void in the community, Bert's departure has done that.
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