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Doña Francisca Benicia Carrillo de Vallejo (1815-1891) was a Californio pioneer. A member of the Carrillo family of California, Carrillo was the wife of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Carrillo was an early settler of Sonoma, California, the town founded by her husband. She survived the Bear Flag Rebellion and went on to oversee the Vallejo estate ...
Benicia is named after Francisca Benicia Carillo de Vallejo, commonly known as Doña Benicia, a Californio ranchera, member of the Carrillo family of California, and wife of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, namesake of nearby Vallejo. View of Benicia in 1850 Benicia Arsenal in 1878. The City of Benicia was founded on May 19, 1847, by Dr ...
Designated CHISL. January 11, 1935. Benicia Capitol State Historic Park is a state park in Benicia, California, United States. The park is dedicated to California 's third capitol building, where the California State Legislature convened from February 3, 1853, to February 24, 1854, when they voted to move the state capital to Sacramento.
The Vallejo California State Capitol site is a California Historical Landmark No. 574 listed on April 1, 1957. [1][2] A Vallejo wooden two-story building served as the California State Capitol from May 4, 1852, to February 4, 1853. The building had a half set basement and was located at 300 York Street, Vallejo.
The North Bay is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States. The largest city is Santa Rosa, which is the fifth-largest city in the Bay Area. It is the location of the Napa and Sonoma wine regions, and is the least populous and least urbanized part of the Bay Area. It consists of Marin, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.
Rancho Suscol. Rancho Suscol was an 84,000-acre (340 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day Sonoma County, California, Napa County, California, and Solano County, California, given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. [1] In a significant land law decision, the land claim was rejected by the US Supreme ...
Benicia State Recreation Area is a state park unit of California, United States, protecting tidal wetland. It is located in the Solano County city of Benicia, 2 miles (3.2 km) west of downtown Benicia and borders Vallejo's Glen Cove neighborhood. The park covers 447 acres (181 ha) of marsh, grassy hillsides and rocky beaches along the narrowest ...
Solano County (/ səˈlɑːnoʊ / ⓘ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, its population was 453,491. [ 5 ] The county seat is Fairfield. [ 6 ] Solano County comprises the Vallejo–Fairfield metropolitan statistical area, which is also included in the San Jose – San Francisco – Oakland, combined ...