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Solano History 13 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.00 seconds. 
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3546 3546
1912

Shipping grain at Tremont Warehouse - year 1912
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3353 3353
1912

Year 1912 photo of Tremont warehouse
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3035 3035

From Ernest Dietrich Tremont Collection. Trmont warehouse
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2792 2792

{Large Negative File) Main Prairie Landing, Shipping sacks of grain by barge..
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3577 3577
1910

Dixon May Day Parade - Grace Summers, Queen, Year 1910 - Western Grain
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WY0043 WY0043

Birds Landing Store erected in 1875 by Frank and Dinkelspiel. Town first known as New Jerusalem. John Bird erected a grain warehouse and; wharf on Montezuma Slough in 1869. Bird first postmaster in 1875 and; the village became known as Birds Landing. [...]

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More than 500 ships were launched / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [156] [WAYITWAS-2003-156]
Mare Island Navy Yard, as it was called in its early years, was established in the fall of 1854 by Admiral David G. Farragut, then a commander in the U.S. Navy.
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People Who Build Ships / Wichels, Ernest [800] [WICHELS-1964-800]
Mare Island is again on the threshold of decision. Sometime this year, we are told, the administration will determine a cutback in the number of naval shipyards. Eleven yards are too many, it is stated, for the present size of United States naval forces afloat. Many considerations will enter into such a decision [...]
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Town 'built around the shipping of fruit' / 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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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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