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Solano History 18 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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Fairfield awakens from sleepy town status in 1942 / Dingler, Nancy [476] [RETROSPECT-2002-476]
The eventful year of 1942 affected everyone in the world, including the quiet little hamlet of Fairfield. The Army Airfield (Later named Travis Air Force Base) was under full construction and use. Permit applications for new apartment construction for the expanding population was granted.
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Air view of town of Monticello. (Also see 4131)
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Town Hall's roots go back to 1893 / Bowen, Jerry [95] [WAYITWAS-2001-95]
Although the earliest year usually associated with the Vacaville Town Hall is 1907, when its construction was completed, its roots go back more than a century.
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Bridges built over troubling waters in town / 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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Elmira a quiet town but for trains, gunfire / Delaplane, Kristin [345] [ECHOS-1997-345]
In 1883, Elmira was a relatively quiet place except when the trains came through. Therefore, citizens were more than a little alarmed to hear gunfire one day. It turned out that it was the result of the town's constable, McKinney, firing on an escaping prisoner Napa Jim. Whether or not Constable McKinney hit his target is unknown.
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Newsclip-20 Sept., 1970-"Tolenas Station located east if Suisun near present-day Travis AFB. Also junction for a swing railroad that was about 3 miles long that went to the town of Cement and the huge Portland Cement Plant..
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Vacaville in Ashes / Bowen, Jerry [35] [WAYITWAS-2000-35]
June 6, 1877. The north wind was hot and harsh on the dry landscape surrounding the small town of Vacaville. At the southwest end of town, Tom Wilson had just returned from Suisun, put his horse in the barn and gone into the house. It was quiet in their home because his mother, Luzena, and sister were visiting Yosemite [...]
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Floods and fire made many idle roomers / Delaplane, Kristin [274] [ECHOS-1996-274]
Second in a series In 1857, the town of Rio Vista was founded, with J.M. Sidwell as one of the original settlers. It was in that year that Sidwell built a hotel. The fate of that hotel was to be complete destruction, along with the rest of the area's structures, when the flood of 1862 hit with such force it drowned out the entire town.
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Birds Landing tavern shot full of memories / Bowen, Jerry [584] [WAYITWAS-2005-584]
I just have to tell you about a great trip into the past last weekend. Ted Haskins, Jesse Hayden and I headed to Birds Landing last weekend to continue our ongoing, self-appointed quest to videotape as much of Solano County's history as we can. We were to meet one of this column's readers, Evelina Lawrence, who had been a resident of the town back in the 1950s. She lives in Oakland now, but she had many fond memories of the town she lived in as a child and a photo album from which we were to re-photograph pictures [...]
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Vaca's downtown bustled in late 1800s / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [60] [WAYITWAS-2001-60]
By the turn of the last century, the town of Vacaville had grown considerably and no longer resembled the sleepy little village of the late 1800s.
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