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Solano History 13 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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WWI changed Solano's landscape / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [134] [WAYITWAS-2002-134]
The spring of 1918 saw California farmers, including local orchard growers, worried. Many young men had been called to training camps or had left for the battlefields of Europe, and more were being drafted on a daily basis.
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WWI Troop Train
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Aussie tree changed Solano's landscape / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [710] [WAYITWAS-2007-710]
With the introduction of eucalyptus trees from Australia around 1853, California's landscape began to change rapidly. Nurseryman Ellwood Cooper was one of the first to seriously experiment with eucalyptus. He envisioned large belts of tree plantings to serve as windbreakers across California.
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WWI took its share of local boys / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [130] [WAYITWAS-2002-130]
World War I, which started in 1914, shaped the 20th century and influenced people's lives around the world.
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An 1879 tour saw a plethora of growers / Delaplane, Kristin [326] [ECHOS-1997-326]
In the spring of 1879, reporters from the Weekly Solano Republican set out to explore the countryside in the Vacaville Township and the town of Vacaville. They described the various ranches and farms and who owned the land. Many of today's streets were named for these early growers.
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Solano has seen many changes / Dingler, Nancy [492] [RETROSPECT-2004-492]
The 1850s brought a major change to Suisun and the surrounding area that would alter the landscape forever. Ship captain, Josiah Wing purchased the "island" of Suisun from Curtis Wilson and Dr. John Baker in 1852, built a wharf and a warehouse, then had his house in San Francisco shipped up the slough and his family sent for. In partnership with John Owens, Captain Wing laid out the town of Suisun. They soon discovered that at low tide, Suisun was not an island, but connected to Fairfield by a strip of land, eventually named Union Ave.
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Vacans supported their troops overseas / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [132] [WAYITWAS-2002-132]
The years 1917 and 1918, when the United States sent troops to the European battlefields, also brought much change to the people back home. Nationally and locally, efforts were under way to support the war and the young men fighting overseas in particular.
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Newspaper clipping: "Vacaville grower studies in Europe"..
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Carrying on family's agricultural tradition / Delaplane, Kristin [412] [ECHOS-1999-412]
"I am a fruit rancher and fourth-generation Vacavillian. My great-grandfather, George Sharpe, came here from England. He was a contractor and a builder and when the train stopped in Elmira, he decided the building opportunities were here. The towns were booming in the 1860s or 1870s [...]
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Local ventures change hands as 1871 begins / Delaplane, Kristin [400] [ECHOS-1998-400]
A storm in February 1871 covered the hills with snow for a day. The flagstaff in front of Wilson's stable in Suisun City, which had been standing for more than a dozen years, was knocked down in a severe gust during the storm.
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