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  • 1905: Fairfield gets a much-needed fire department
  • 1909 fires ravage towns, but Presbyterian church is saved
  • 1944 blast at Benicia arsenal shakes up Solano
  • 1955 blast at Benicia arsenal shakes up Solano
  • A historic tableau on Pepper Belly's wall
  • A man of vision, Frisbie made a difference in Vallejo
  • A new city in search of sewers
  • A transcontinental road dream fulfilled - Highway 40
  • Acres of fun -- Eat, drink and get a pumpkin at Bishop farm in Wheatland
  • Admiral Farragut: a stellar military career
  • Architect known for beauty, elegance and aesthetics
  • Armijo family prospered on Tolenas land grant
  • Bert Hughes: historian, family man, community treasure
  • Bridges replace ferries for Bay Area transport
  • Chief Solano's grave site is shrouded in mystery
  • Chinese community falls apart after mass murder
  • Cries of ghost entwined with fate of mill
  • December, 1900: Tule fog, Christmas
  • Driving force behind newspaper - and lavish fair
  • Fairfield awakens from sleepy town status in 1942
  • Farmer, columnist Wood Young kept history alive
  • Few African Americans in Solano 150 years ago
  • Fifty years since the birth of the Monticello Dam
  • Filipinos made immense contributions in Vallejo
  • Floods of 1880s washed over Solano
  • Glashoff pumpkin patch era comes to a close
  • Gordon helps Bear Flag party, sends sons to protect Gen. Vallejo
  • Happy anniversary to those who keep the past alive
  • Henry Goosen: The man behind the mansion
  • Heroic Acts Highlighted in Earthquake Exhibit
  • History between the pages
  • History of Solano papers makes headlines
  • History: Flu pandemic mows down young and old alike
  • Investing in real estate and running a newspaper
  • It was a lavish affair for the 1914 celebration
  • Kaisers business acumen transformed the country
  • Local revelations Vallejo woman documents slavery, early black pioneers
  • Looking back on the birth of the Air Force
  • Man responsible for Donner Party disaster lived in Solano
  • Mare Island shipyard celebrates 150th birthday
  • Mary Enos: farmer, landowner, 'mother' of Travis
  • Meet Cleo Gordon Elementary school's namesake
  • Meet the famous owner of Green Valley Country Club
  • Mira, Mira on the wall--Oh, the tales this theater can tell
  • Mystery of the healing waters in Tolenas
  • Native American ghosts residing in Suisun?
  • Neitzels of Suisun Valley
  • Never heard of Nurse's Landing? Read on
  • Now going strong, Vallejo Maritime Academy started out shaky
  • Remembering Cement, Tolenas and Tidewater Railroad
  • Rockville park - site of massacre in 1810
  • Rulofson: curator of Vacaville's Pena Adobe
  • SAD LOSS - GREEN VALLEY SCHOOL
  • Save historic places before it's too late
  • Small-town news flourishes amid crash of '29
  • Solano has seen many changes
  • Solano pioneer: rich woman, poor woman
  • Solano poet Edwin Markham: a man with a dream
  • Solano treasure from 1850s: Dingley's flour mill
  • Success ultimately became ferries' downfall
  • The Alfords, Barbours and Rockville stone chapel
  • The case of the murder and the mystery photo
  • The day Armijo High School burned down
  • The intrepid families of Vaca and Pena
  • The Lawler House sits next to the Harbor Theatre in downtown Suisun City.
  • The long journey to California in 1846
  • The origins of the Catholic church in Solano
  • The Patwins, the settlers and Lake Solano
  • The three Josiah Wings: shipping merchant, pioneer, mayor
  • Two exceptional teachers in Solano history
  • Vallejo: the man who shaped California history
  • Vallejos quest for the fountain of life
  • War brings some prosperity to Fairfield, region
  • Waterman Park provided answer to wartime housing
  • Who built an adobe next to Suisun Valley oak tree?
  • William Gordon Huff: the sculptor of Chief Solano

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This is an archive of the History Column "Solano In Retrospect" written by Nancy Dingler. These articles are written monthly for the Daily Republic Newspaper In Fairfield.
Fellow Colleagues Jerry Bowen and Sabine Goerke-Shrode currently write "Solano: The Way It Was" for the Vacaville Reporter.

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• History between the pages
• Fifty years since the birth of the Monticello Dam
• Looking back on the birth of the Air Force
• Filipinos made immense contributions in Vallejo
• Kaisers business acumen transformed the country
• Vallejos quest for the fountain of life
• Local revelations Vallejo woman documents slavery, early black pioneers
• The Lawler House sits next to the Harbor Theatre in downtown Suisun City.
• A man of vision, Frisbie made a difference in Vallejo
• Man responsible for Donner Party disaster lived in Solano
• Never heard of Nurse’s Landing? Read on
• Heroic Acts Highlighted in Earthquake Exhibit
• Happy anniversary to those who keep the past alive
• SAD LOSS - GREEN VALLEY SCHOOL
• Save historic places before it’s too late