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Town of Cordelia launched with high hopes / Delaplane, Kristin [240] [ECHOS-1995-240]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council, Solano Genealogical Society and Fairfield Public Library archives. In 1866, the boundaries of Green Valley Township were laid out. They included the sites of Green Valley and Suisun Valley and the villages Cordelia/Bridgeport, and Rockville.
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Solano townships boomed, then went bust / Delaplane, Kristin [235] [ECHOS-1995-235]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Museum, Vacaville Heritage Council and Vacaville Public Library. Solano County was one of the original 27 counties organized when California became a state in 1850. Providing water transport by the Sacramento River and its many sloughs and with some of the richest farming land, it was an ideal place to establish town sites. The towns were settled by men from the gold fields and those who came to California as pioneers.
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Postcard of high school. Old town grave yard. Vacaville
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Postcard of high school. Old town grave yard. Vacaville
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Postcard of high school. Old town grave yard. Vacaville
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Early depot town faded away / Bowen, Jerry [711] [WAYITWAS-2007-711]
My interest in Solano County history began in the 1990s after I retired from Mare Island Naval Shipyard, and it grew by leaps and bounds when I met who I consider one of Vacaville's finest men ever to grace this community, Bert Hughes, at the Vacaville Heritage Council.
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Bridgeport began with high hopes / Bowen, Jerry [80] [WAYITWAS-2001-80]
In my last article we explored the beginnings and demise of the original town of Cordelia. With the impending arrival of the California Pacific Railroad, residents realized the location of the town would no longer be on the route of normal travel. (In my last article on Cordelia I called it the Central Pacific, which was incorrect).
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Town gains fame as fruit-growing capital / Delaplane, Kristin [247] [ECHOS-1995-247]
Information for this article came from the Vacaville Heritage Council and Vacaville Museum. Second of two parts Vacaville was the birthplace of another man of note. The famed botanist, Willis Linn Jepson, was born in Vacaville in 1867.
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Two different towns of Cordelia / Bowen, Jerry [78] [WAYITWAS-2001-78]
According to Thompson and West's 1878 Atlas of Solano County, Cordelia is the second-oldest town in Solano County. The same information was provided in the 1879 Wood-Alley History of Solano County. Since then, writer after writer and historian after historian has repeated this as fact ... including me.
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KPIX Channel 5 Town of Cement KPIX Channel 5 Town of Cement
2009

"Eye On The Bay" host Brian Hackney interviews local historian Jerry Bowen at the site of the old town of Cement. Cement was a company town that operated near Fairfield, CA from 1902 to 1927, which produced most of the portland cement used for area bridges and buildings..


Running Time: 03:33
Video Format: 720x480 4/3, 29.97 - DVD
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