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Quake doesn't dim Vaca showcase
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[84]
[WAYITWAS-2001-84]
During the late 1880s and early 1890s, Vacaville residents eagerly tried to promote the town and their flourishing orchard industry throughout the United States in an effort to attract new settlers to move here.
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Hotel at proposed town of Vaca Valley
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Once flourishing, town now echoes history
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Bowen, Jerry
[575]
[WAYITWAS-2005-575]
With so many new folks in Solano County, and quite probably with many who have been here for several years, my bet is that a whole lot of you never have heard of the town of Birds Landing.
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Ex-Vacan recalls town's Japanese past
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Delaplane, Kristin
[417]
[ECHOS-1999-417]
During the heyday of the fruit orchards in Solano County, the ethnic mix of orchardists and workers was astounding. The early arrivals were the original settlers, the Spanish and then the trailblazers from back East. Then came the Chinese.
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Town 'built around the shipping of fruit'
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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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Benicia a bustling, growing town in 1856
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Delaplane, Kristin
[286]
[ECHOS-1996-286]
First of four parts New Year's 1856 was celebrated in Vacaville with a ball. The people were crowded in a local building to the point of suffocation. Editors of the Solano County Herald advised that their friends in that section of the county build a large hall for the purpose of future balls.
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Town flourished, then faded on the river of time
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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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(87)
Bridges built over troubling waters in town
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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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Small-town news flourishes amid crash of '29
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Dingler, Nancy
[619]
[RETROSPECT-2005-619]
Thumbing through the Solano Republican newspaper of 1929, I expected to find news of the stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression.
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Community was railroaded into oblivion
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Bowen, Jerry
[557]
[WAYITWAS-2004-557]
In my last column we saw the beginnings of the new town of Winters and its naming. The Dixon Tribune began reporting the development of Winters as "a flourishing town; on paper ... " and that several merchants in Vacaville and Dixon would be relocating or opening businesses in the town.
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