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Category: History

History

IASA: There’s often more to the story than we know

Posted onMay 13, 2018May 13, 2018

By HARRIETT BURT Martinez Gazette Contributor Last Sunday’s historic tour of the Italian fishing community in the late 19th and first half of the 20th …

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Underground Echoes: Aaron Rice (1819 – 1906) – Probate 101

Posted onMay 6, 2018May 6, 2018

By JOSEPH & JUDIE PALMER Special to the Gazette From our last column, we wrote about Aaron’s horrible heartbreak with the loss of his entire …

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Underground Echoes: From sorrow to joy

Posted onApril 22, 2018April 25, 2018

By JOSEPH & JUDIE PALMER Special to the Gazette In our last installment it stated on November 14, 1872, the Rice family grew when Aaron’s …

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Our Town: The Gazette moves to Pacheco

Posted onApril 15, 2018April 15, 2018

By HARRIETT BURT Martinez News-Gazette Contributor Happy New Year 1859 to readers of the Contra Costa Gazette/Martinez News-Gazette. 1859’s first news is about the establishment …

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Underground Echoes: Rice’s grow in Napa

Posted onApril 8, 2018April 9, 2018

By JOSEPH & JUDIE PALMER Special to the Gazette To recap Aaron Rice and his family’s story since they gained their freedom, we created a …

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Our Town: Headlines from the earliest issues of the Gazette

Posted onApril 1, 2018April 4, 2018

By HARRIETT BURT Martinez News-Gazette Contributor “The establishment of a newspaper in Contra Costa County was an important factor in its upbuilding and development,” stated …

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Underground Echoes: Citizenship finally acquired

Posted onMarch 25, 2018May 20, 2018

By JOSEPH & JUDIE PALMER Special to the Gazette Picking up where we left off with Aaron Rice’s story, we had discussed how he and …

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Our Town: Headlines from the Past – From the 19th century to the 20th

Posted onMarch 18, 2018March 22, 2018

By HARRIETT BURT Martinez News-Gazette Contributor Thank you for the good feedback about the ‘headlines’ series we started a month ago. When it was a …

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Underground Echoes: Found, hidden treasure in plain site

Posted onMarch 11, 2018May 20, 2018

By JOSEPH & JUDIE PALMER Special to the Gazette We would like to thank all of you for taking this multipart journey of exploring the …

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Longtime restaurant near donated railcar demolished

Posted onMarch 9, 2018

Demolition of the award-winning Walnut Creek steakhouse, Vic Stewart’s, has been underway, but the rail car that has been donated to the Martinez Historical Society …

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