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Famous
People
Fairfield
Pat Morita
Noriyuki "Pat" Morita
Born in Isleton, CA 06/28/1932
Noriyuki graduated from Armijo High School in Fairfield, California
Died 11/24/2005 at his home in Las Vegas, NV at the age of 73
Film
M*A*S*H
Happy Fays
Karate Kid
The Hughleys
Links
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Morita
• IMDb
Info
• http://marriage.about.com/od/
entertainmen1/p/patmorita.htm
William Gordon Huff
Didn't live here but created the statue of Cheif Solano
His father was a trail driver on the Chisholm Trail.
After vandals targeted the 1934 statue at its original place on a hill
along Highway 40 - behind the truck scales on Interstate 80 going west
- the statue was brought to Fairfield in 1938 and placed in front of
the Solano County Free Library at the corner of Texas and Union Street.
Recent research paints a much grimmer picture of Chief Solano than the
friendly, romanticized image portrayed by sculptor William Gordon Huff.
Jelly Belly
Not a person but a place.
April 20, 2005) – Jelly Belly Candy Company’s factory tour
in Fairfield, Calif., has been named “Best of America” by
the editors of Reader’s Digest magazine.
Ex-President Ronald Reagan is represented here, because of his well-publicized
fondness for this confection. The Visitor Center is also decorated
with an art gallery complete with life-sized mosaics of famous people
made entirely out of Jelly Bellys! Link01
Captain Robert Waterman
Founder of Fairfield was a famous Clipper ship captain who holds the
sailing record from China to New York in 74 days in 1849 aboard his Sea
Witch.
The bell of that ship is diplayed in front of the Fairfield City Hall.
In 1850 he moved to Suisun Valley where he raised cattle from Texas and
grew lima beans to sell to Gold Rush miners.
In 1856 Fairfield, California was named Fairfield after the town where
Waterman grew up. He also named the town of Bridgeport and renamed Bridgeport,
California to Cordelia, after his wife. On August 8th, 1884 Captain Waterman died at his Suisun
Valley home.
Books
That fabulous Captain Waterman (A reflection book)
Unknown Binding: 111 pages
Publisher: Comet Press Books (1957)
Language: English
ASIN: B0007EKVJY
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Big Valley Episodes Guide to
Season One
"Barbary Red" Episode: #1.21 - 2/16/1966
Peter Breck, Richard Long
Michael Harris as Sheriff
John Hoyt as Captain Waterman
George Kennedy as Jack Thatcher
Donna Michelle as Dolly
John Orchard as Banks
Ric Roman as Thug
Neil Russell as Clint
Paul Sorenson as Hap
Jill St. John as Barbary Red
Waterman First To Bring Eucalyptus To California
This story should start by 1847, when a German doctor arrived into Botany
Bay and headed to Melbourne. For fifty years eucalyptus seed was distributed
all over the world from him to the visitors he received from many other
countries, and from these to others.
Californian pioneers
- Captain R. H. Waterman & Captain J. Douglass. Seed introductors
and first planters. Suisun Valley (1853 onwards)
Now a quote from Gayle Groenendaal, from UCLA:
"Eucalyptus were introduced into California as an ornamental by
clipper ship Captain Robert H. Waterman in 1853. In a biography of Waterman,
David A. Weir (1957) reports that Waterman had a dream when he retired
from the sea and that dream was to plant a "heap o' trees." On
retirement, Waterman set forth to accomplish that dream.
Waterman bought an undivided half interest in a twelve-mile square tract
of land in Suisun Valley in 1850 with another sea captain, A. A. Ritchie,
as his partner. The Captain laid out the cities of Fairfield and Cordelia,
which he named for his wife, in Solano County. He hired Josiah Allison,
a horticultural expert, to help him landscape his towns and his own ranch
home. Waterman, accompanied by Allison and Ritchie traveled the immense
Suisun Valley and surveyed the boundaries, staked out roads, and marked
future tree locations (Weir 1957).
Waterman commissioned his ex-first mate, Jim Douglass, to bring him some
eucalyptus seeds on his next voyage to Australia. In 1853, records Weir,
Douglas brought the Captain a bag of bluegum seed, and from these seeds
came the stands of eucalypts that are still growing around the Captain's
home and along many of the roads of the Suisun Valley. Waterman reportedly
gave seeds of the eucalyptus to the new settlers of Fairfield and to
his friends in other areas (Weir 1957).
This is the first record identifying the genus Eucalyptus with sailing
vessels and tied them to the trade that must have brought them from the
Australian continent to the California coast."
In regard to the 1806 reference, it is not historically impossible. Sir
Joseph Banks was receiving seeds for Kew from Botany Bay as early as
1788 onwards, despite the "new plants" did not receive their
name Eucalyptus for some years. I am not aware of any documental source
proving so or hinting so for California that early.
Founder of Fairfield
Fairfield is located on lands that were originally part of the Tolenas
and Suisun
land grants, the first of five grants in the county confirmed by patents
issued by
the United States. In 1839, Jose Francisco Armijo petitioned for 3 square
leagues
of land in Suisun Valley in northern California; he received the grant
to Rancho
Tolenas from Governor Alvarado the following year. Jose Francisco Armijo's
son, Antonia, acquired the title to the 13,315-acre rancho on the elder's
death in 1850. In 1858, Captain R.H. Waterman acquired land in the Armijo
grant.
Shortly after getting title to the land, Waterman offered 16 acres to
Solano
County for use as a new county seat. The county seat had been located
in
Benicia at the far edge of the county, but many wanted to move the county
administration to a more centralized location. In 1858, Solano County
voters
accepted Waterman's offer, making the new town of
Fairfield (named after
Waterman's hometown in Connecticut) the new county
seat, where it has
remained. (Hunt 1926, Kyle 1990, Wood Alley and Co. 1879.)
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Famous People
http://www.solanoarticles.com/
Bird's Landing
John Dinkelspiel
In 1876, Jacob and Moses Dinkelspiel built a General Store
in Bird's Landings. The general store proved to be Bird's Landings
most successful enterprise. The Dinkelspiels are one of the oldest
Jewish families in the Bay Area. John Dinkelspiel was the grandson
of Moses Dinkelspiel. He bacame involved in politics and was close
friends with Richard Nixon and later became mayor of Atherton 1982
to 1986.
Suisun
Michael Wanguhu
Filmaker of award winning film about African-American Hip-Hop Culture.
http://hiphopcolony.com/
Revel Drinkwater (R. D.) Robbins
Established and was president of Bank of Suisun
died in 1919 with estate valued at almost $6 million.
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Suisun Valley
Chief Solano
The county derives its name indirectly from that of the Franciscan missionary,
Father Francisco Solano, whose name was given in baptism to the chief of
one of the Native American tribes of the region. Before receiving the name
Solano, the chief was called Sem-yeto, which signifies "brave or fierce
hand." At the request of General Mariano Vallejo, the county was named
for Chief Solano, who at one time ruled over most of the land and tribes
between the Petaluma Creek and the Sacramento River.
Complex Circles in Wheat Field
Not a person but a thing
Alpha Block: Strange phenomena in Fairfield:
Posted by lolik4 on Saturday, July 05 @ 08:19:28 GMT (225 reads)
The crop circle formation stamped in a local farmer's 80-acre wheat field is
the largest and most complex design ever reported in the United States, researchers
said on Wednesday. While some findings at the site indicate the formation is
by human hands, one observation is not so easily explained. On Saturday morning
farmer Larry Balestra discovered the formation of more than a dozen circles on
the corner of Rockville and Suisun Valley roads. The shapes covered a distance
longer than a football field and formed a symmetrical design. A key finding at
the site is that the circles are actually ellipses and that they have only one
geometric center, said Nancy Talbott, of BLT Research Team Inc.
http://www.thesupernaturalworld.co.uk/
Vacaville
* Cindy Sheehan, anti-war protester
* Papa Roach, Nu Metal Band
* Jermaine Dye, Professional Baseball Player, 2005 World Series MVP with the
Chicago White Sox
* Dennis Alexio, Professional Kickboxer
Juan Felipe Pena, who brought his family to the area in 1842 with Juan Manuel
Vaca's family.
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Solano County
September 9 - California is admitted as the 31st U.S. state. Solano County was
one of the original 27 counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of
statehood. It retains it's original boundaries.
Pony Express
20 times when Pony Express riders missed their steam boat connection in Sacramento
in 1860 and 1861 and had to take arduous land route through Solano County instead.
State Capitol
Solano County actually hosted the state Capitol in two locations during the early
years. From 1852 to 1853, the state Capitol was in Vallejo. The promise of better
accommodations then lured the government to Benicia, where it was installed until
1854, before moving permanently to Sacramento.
Some of the famous people who crossed Solano County. Among the names he cherishes
are those of John Charles Fremont, "the great explorer of the west" (whose
reports brought early settlers to Solano County), William T. Sherman of Civil
War fame, who was stationed at the Benicia Arsenal during the 1850s, Gen.
Mariano Vallejo, Western trader and former Missouri Gov. Lillburn
Boggs, outlaw Joaquin
Murietta and poet and Vacaville native Edwin Markham.
Links
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cascgsi/
death.htm?o_xid=0039762141&o_
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