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Part 2-Spanish Troops Marched In / Bowen, Jerry [673] [WAYITWAS-2006-673]
When I ended my last column I said, "Second-Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga with seventeen soldiers and an auxiliary force of Christian Indians of unknown size attacked the Suisun force of 120 fighting men on May 22, 1810 near Rockville." Here again is a misconception of history perhaps read out of context. It wasn't at Rockville. It was at or near today's Suisun City.
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Suisun men helped oust Spanish troops / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [158] [WAYITWAS-2003-158]
One of the tenets of American politics during the 18th and 19th centuries was the belief that the country should remain unconcerned with European affairs.
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Rockville park - site of massacre in 1810 / Dingler, Nancy [459] [RETROSPECT-2000-459]
The year was 1810 when Spain's appointed governor to California ordered a young lieutenant, Gabriel Moraga, to lead an expedition north of the Carquinez Straight. Gov. Sola wanted to learn more about the northern territory and what exploitative value it had, if any.
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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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4286 4286
1976

Rockville Cemetery, 15 March, 1976
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Legends, myths a part of Rockville / Bowen, Jerry [146] [WAYITWAS-2002-146]
What is known today as Rockville Corners was once a thriving little village in the mid-1850s. Before that, it was a major encampment and settlement of the Suisun Indians before they were almost completely wiped out by smallpox from 1837 to 1839.
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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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WY0154b WY0154b

Rockville Church, built in 1856 by Methodist Episcopal Church South. Rear (west end) of Rockville Chapel before restoration..
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Spanish Pruners Strike 1932 Spanish Pruners Strike 1932
2008

From 1911 to 1913, eight thousand Spanish families immigrated from Spain to the Hawaiian Islands. Promises of land and education were broken, nearly all continued to California, many would find their way to the fields and orchards of the San Joaquin Valley. In 1932 they went on strike. With the help of the IWW they took on the establishment, riots, beatings, lynching and the courts finally stopped them in California's first labor dispute in the fields. [...]


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4388 4388
1938

Rockville Corners and two people in Indian costumes (retake)
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