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Fun Facts About Suisun City
- In earlier times, Suisun City was an island, linked to
neighboring Fairfield by a causeway.
- Suisun means "west wind", originating with the
Patwin Indians. Suisun was also the name of the local Patwin
tribe.
- Suisun City was born out of a feud. Captain Josiah Wing
established Suisun during the Gold Rush days after he got
into a shipping war with the founder of Fairfield, Captain
Robert Waterman.
- Under Captain Wing's guidance, the city became a key spot
on the trading route between the foothills of the Sierra
Nevada and the San Francisco Bay Area.
- According to editors of the Solano County Herald, in 1857,
Suisun City was "nothing more than a point of land
in the tules reached only by canals and bridges." But
wagons, carts, buggies, cattle, horses, and men were so
closely packed together it was almost impossible for the
stage to move along.
- Once prospectors reached Suisun, they could set out on
foot in search of their treasure.
- The Old Town section of the city is located on the Suisun
Channel, which empties into Suisun and Grizzly Bays, the
connecting point for the Sacramento River and San Francisco
Bay.
- The Suisun Delta Region is the largest in the United States.
- Suisun Marsh is the largest continuous brackish water
marsh remaining on the west coast of North America. It is
a critical part of the San Francisco Bay - Delta estuary
ecosystem.
- Field & Stream Magazine lists the Suisun Delta as
one of the top 50 places to catch the "fish of your
dreams."
- A 1906 fire detroyed the original train depot. The new
depot opened in 1914 in its current location.
- The Lawler House, constructed in 1856, stood east of Suisun
City. In the 1980's, the city moved the building bay barge
to its current location due to the expansion of Highway
12.
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