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Armijo blazed an arm of the Old Spanish Trail / Bowen, Jerry [613] [WAYITWAS-2005-613]
Several stories have been written about Antonio Maria Armijo over the past years concerning his life as one of Solano County's earliest pioneers. Not much has been said up to this point about his accomplishments before he arrived in the area.
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Settlers followed the Spanish Trail to Solano / Bowen, Jerry [603] [WAYITWAS-2005-603]
Today, travel from one corner of our continent to the other and indeed the entire world, is generally well-mapped and with so many modes of travel, quite easy.
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The Armijo trail led from Santa Fe to L.A. / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [497] [WAYITWAS-2004-497]
During the late 1830s and into the 1840s, more than 500 land grants were awarded in California, mostly to settlers of Spanish descent. Several of these grants were located in the area which later became Solano County, among them the Soscol grant given to General Vallejo, the Rio de Los Putos grant owned by William Wolfskill, the Suisun Rancho of Chief Solano, Juan Manuel Vaca's and Juan Felipe Pena's Lihuaytos grant and Rancho Tolenas or Armijo, given to Don Jose Francisco Armijo.
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WY0002c WY0002c
1851

Mrs. Jose Francisco Armijo (Jesus Maria) and; grandaughter Maria Armijo, daughter of Antonio Mariano Armijo. 1851 tintype (Property of Lolita (Wight) Stalp.)
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Carols And A Blaze / Wichels, Ernest [846] [WICHELS-1964-846]
In the days before automobiles, movies, TV or radio, many Vallejoans turned to their churches for Christmas Eve fellowship and entertainment. We chose 1878, at random, and here is what the weekly Chronicle of 86 years ago said, on Dec. 28:
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Vacavillle went to blazes in 1800s / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [108] [WAYITWAS-2002-108]
Fire presented one of the major worries of early life in Vacaville and in other settlements.
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2408 2408
1910

School portrait. Armijo High School (old), ca 1910
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Wagon Trails West by Lucille Vinsant Wagon Trails West by Lucille Vinsant
2005

Lucille Vinsant, co-founder of the Solano County Genealogical Society shares a remarkable story of what it was like being a woman, crossing the plains in the 1800's. Recorded on April 23, 2005 at the Pioneer Day Reunion at Rockville Church in Suisun Valley. Introduction by Mary Higham, Director of the Solano County Historical Society..


Running Time: 15:57
Video Format: 720x480 4/3, 29.97 - DVD
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Early California gold rush pioneer / Bowen, Jerry [125] [WAYITWAS-2002-125]
Some of Solano County's early residents are relatively unknown locally but when you look into their past you find that they left an impressive trail of actions and deeds.
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Armijo family prospered on Tolenas land grant / Dingler, Nancy [477] [RETROSPECT-2003-477]
Solano County was originally made up of six Spanish/Mexican land grants, all acquired by General Mariano Vallejo. He encouraged Mexican and American citizens to settle in Northern California, purchase land from Vallejo, raise cattle and their own little empires. One of those families were the Armijos, who arrived in the Suisun Valley around 1842.
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