While the dream of a capital city was gone, Frisbie worked hard to get the U.S. government to buy Mare Island, across the Napa River from Vallejo, for a West Coast naval base.
Mariano Vallejo was a young Mexican Army lieutenant when he led 25 soldiers on a horseback expedition around much of the San Francisco Bay area in about 1830. They traversed what eventually became Oakland, Richmond, Martinez, Crockett, Vallejo, San Rafael and Sausalito, among other cities.
Citing “inescapable” historic facts, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has revived plans for a proposed $700 million Indian casino in Vallejo sought by a Pomo tribe whose Northern California ancestors were slaughtered at Clear Lake by U.S. Cavalry troops and vigilantes in 1850. The Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians case focuses in part […]
Research into Vallejo history can get complicated – especially when encountering someone who preferred fake news over facts when writing about the city’s earliest days. That’s what you find in reading Judge John A. Browne’s “Early Days” memoir.
Research into Vallejo history can get complicated – especially when encountering someone who preferred fake news over facts when writing about the city’s earliest days. That’s what you find in reading Judge John A. Browne’s “Early Days” memoir.