Vacaville’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Vacaville. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Prior to European contact, the indigenous Patwin tribe lived in the area with the Ululato tribelet, establishing a chiefdom around the Ululato village in what is now downtown Vacaville along the Ulatis Creek.
The early settler pioneers of the land were Juan Manuel Cabeza Vaca and Juan Felipe Peña, who were awarded a 44,000-acre (18,000 ha) Mexican land grant in 1842. The same year, Vaca and Peña's families settled in the area of Lagoon Valley. Peña's Adobe home is the oldest standing building, built in 1842, now at Peña Adobe Park.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Start Vacaville’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Vacaville’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewPena Adobe, Pena Adobe Road: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Vacaville
See all 13 →
Vacaville, decade by decade
2000
unknown2 items
3 historic places in Vacaville
3 places in Vacaville are 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
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Pena Adobe, Pena Adobe Road and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1), the Library of Congress (2) and the National Register (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.