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Solano History 14 records found  1 - 10next  jump to record: Search took 0.01 seconds. 
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Marble, healing water spring from Tolenas site / Delaplane, Kristin [432] [ECHOS-1999-432]
It was said that long ago, native Indians called the springs, located on a hill five miles north of Suisun City, "The Land of the Healing Waters." This was to become the site of Tolenas Springs (a.k.a. Solano Mineral Springs and Suisun Soda Springs), a famous Solano County landmark for many decades.
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Suisun City's Early History full of Drama / Bowen, Jerry [823] [WAYITWAS-2008-823]
Suisun was a fast growing town from the 1870s to the 1890s. Loads of marble passed through Suisun from Judge Swan's marble quarry located about seven miles north of Suisun at Tolenas Springs en route to San Francisco. A few of the old Suisun families had 40-pound clocks encased in the marble. The mineral water there was bottled and sold, along with sarsaparilla in the bars of the period [...]
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Mystery of the healing waters in Tolenas / Dingler, Nancy [458] [RETROSPECT-2000-458]
Two centuries ago, in the 1800s, it became all the rage to "take the cure" in natural waters alive with sulfur and other curative minerals. Throughout Europe and America, the wealthy would flock to sumptuous resorts to be slathered in mud or to soak in hot waters that would soothe the body's ills from indigestion to arthritis. Such a popular remedy did not remain solely the indulgence of the idle rich.
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Healing springs, fine hotels and plumbing / Delaplane, Kristin [311] [ECHOS-1996-311]
By October 1858, the Solano County Herald publisher, William J. Hooton, had managed to move his printing equipment by dray from Benicia to his offices in Suisun City located in a new building on the south side of the Plaza. This momentous move was made because of the county seat being situated in Fairfield. The publisher addressed this in the first edition from Suisun dated October 2.
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Tolenas Springs excavated 7-ton stone / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [588] [WAYITWAS-2005-588]
In autumn of 1857, the Solano County Herald, located in Benicia, sent two reporters on "a stroll through the upper part of the county" with the intent to show its readers the latest developments in places like Suisun and Vacaville. The report was published on Sept. 26, 1857.
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Tolenas Springs from Hutchings Magazine
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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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Vallejo Times Herald Newspaper article - Bottle and Pamplet from Tolenas Springs..
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Willow Springs School. 100 yards north of Birds Landing Store original location..
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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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