Solano County
California

Fairfield
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Fairfield is a city located in Northern California, USA, near San Francisco and Sacramento. Fairfield, founded in 1859 by clippership captain Robert H. Waterman, and named after his former hometown of Fairfield, Connecticut, is the home of Travis Air Force Base and the Jelly Belly factory, and has a population of 101,935 as of a July 1, 2002 Census estimate. It shares a border with its sister city, Suisun City. Other nearby cities include Vacaville, Benicia and Vallejo. Fairfield is the county seat of Solano County.

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Dixon's Main Street circa 1890
             Dixon's Main Street circa 1890

The Dixon Public Library Historical Collection is online!
A must see for anyone researching the Dixon / Silveyville area:

Dixon Public Library Historical Collection

The library Archives also has a collection of both Dixon and
Solano County records: Dixon Archives Inventory

Thanks to Dixon Library Archivist Shirley Parsons for this resource!


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