Rio Vista’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Rio Vista. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The present location of Rio Vista town center is several miles south of the original settlement. Colonel Nathan H. Davis founded "Brazos del Rio" near the entrance of Cache Slough at the Sacramento River, on the Rancho Los Ulpinos Mexican land grant, in 1858. The settlement changed its name to "Vista del Rio" (View of the river), and a third time within a year, to "Rio Vista" on the suggestion of the wife of the postmaster, Mrs Charles A. Kirkpatrick in 1858. The city's name combined the Spanish words for "river" and "view". The town was known as New Rio Vista briefly after it moved to its present location on higher ground following a series of floods in 1861 and 1862. The postal authorities established office in 1858. The community was officially incorporated as Rio Vista on December 30, 1893. During the internment of Japanese Americans, most of Rio Vista's Japanese citizens were sent…
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Start Rio Vista’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rio Vista’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewRio Vista flooding 1997, 1997: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Rio Vista
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Rio Vista, decade by decade
LOCA wind farm off California Rt. 12 near Rio Vista in Solano …2012
LOCFoster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant2012
LOCFoster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant2012
LOCFoster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant2012
LOCFoster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant2012
LOCFoster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant2012
LOCFoster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant2012
LOCFoster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant2012
LOCFoster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant2012
LOCFoster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant2012
LOCFoster's Bighorn Bar and Restaurant20121 historic place in Rio Vista
1 place in Rio Vista is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (11). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.