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  • "Little Norway" History Told
  • 1900 Advertising
  • A Bit Of This And That
  • A Long Line of Ships
  • Across the Strait
  • Advertising Of Long Ago
  • Another Year Is History
  • April: An Earth Shaking Month
  • Atlas provides glimpse of local life in 1870's
  • Buildings That Are Old, New
  • Carols And A Blaze
  • Carter Heights
  • Changing Fashions
  • Changing Landmarks
  • Christmas In Vallejo
  • City Flora and Fauna
  • Contra Costa 'Other Coast'
  • Days Of May 114 Years Ago
  • Dusts Of Early Vallejo
  • Earlier Days In August
  • Earlier Newspapers
  • Early Hospitals In The County
  • Early Media
  • Early Schools About County
  • Early Solano
  • Early Vallejo Race Tracks
  • Ernest D. Wichels Will Author T-H Historical Column
  • Fabulous Frye Ranch
  • February Anniversaries
  • Forgotten Tales
  • Fun Time At The Springs
  • Georgia St. Has Pioneers
  • Golden Poppies
  • Graduates Of Early Vallejo
  • Grandfather's New Year's Eve
  • Historical Landmarks
  • Historical Sites Marked
  • Historical Tidbits
  • History from the beginning
  • History Repeats
  • Hoodlums, Then, Now
  • Horseless Carriages
  • How Early Editors Wrote
  • How it all began
  • How the Old-Timers saw us
  • John Lawley, area Pioneer
  • Just A Century Ago
  • Mare Island's Earthquake
  • Mastodon History
  • Memorial Days In Vallejo
  • Memories Of Holiday
  • Messengers Of 1912-1914
  • More On Hospitals
  • Names To Remember
  • Nearby Points of Interest
  • New Year Eve Past Century
  • New Year's
  • Ninety Odd Years Ago
  • October Leaves
  • Old Church Structures
  • Old Rocks, Other Items
  • Old Time News Writing
  • Oldest Structure
  • Orders For Mare Island
  • Other Days Of Mourning
  • Paddles To Polaris
  • Past Christmas Memories
  • People Who Build Ships
  • Pioneer families of the area
  • Planking On Streets
  • Presidential Visits
  • Problems Not New
  • Prospects of a Wet Winter
  • Ranch Towns In Two Areas
  • Recalling Names from Another Era
  • Relics And VIP Visits
  • Rivers In Our Area
  • Seals And Shoplifters
  • Searching for Cast Iron Portals
  • Solano Pioneers
  • Solano's 49ers
  • Solano-Napa Earthquakes
  • Some Foundations
  • St. Peter's Tiffany windows
  • Submariner MacArthur
  • The Easter parade
  • The Founder Of Our City
  • The Many Firsts in Napa County
  • The Origin Of Names
  • The other shipyards
  • The Sperry Pioneers
  • The Turkey Is Unchanged
  • The White Sulphur Spring
  • Then, And Nowadays
  • Thomas O. Larkin
  • Vallejo's Cow Palace
  • Vallejo's Petaluma Adobe
  • We're Losing The Bay
  • When "TR" Came To Town

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For nearly 20 years, Ernest D. Wichels had written several articles on the history of Solano County for the Vallejo Times Herald Newspaper.



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• Recalling Names from Another Era
• The Many Firsts in Napa County
• Atlas provides glimpse of local life in 1870’s
• History from the beginning
• Forgotten Tales
• The Easter parade
• Pioneer families of the area
• New Year’s
• Past Christmas Memories
• Prospects of a Wet Winter
• Changing Landmarks
• Across the Strait
• 1900 Advertising
• The other shipyards
• Nearby Points of Interest