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28,158
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$106,989
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America/Los_Angeles
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Benicia, CA - History
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Welcome to the Benicia Home page. The Benicia Home page provides as much information as possible on Benicia. Knowing Benicia’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Benicia’s Home page, you will also find Benicia’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Benicia has a population of 28158. 49.2% of Benicia’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.8 are female. 55.7% of Benicia is married and 71.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $596,983, and the average rent is $1,995. Household median income in Benicia is $106,989, and the individual median income is $51,978. Benicia’s Ethnic is the following: White(72.4%), Hispanic(13.9%), Asian(11.5%), Multiple(9.5%), Black(3.2%), Other(2.7%), Pacific(0.4%), Native(0.2%).
In 1901, the world's first long-distance powerline crossing over Carquinez Strait was built. After California's wheat output dropped in the early 20th century and especially after the Southern Pacific (which took over the operations of the Central Pacific) opened a railroad bridge to Martinez on October 15, 1930, eliminating the ferry crossing and the Benicia station, Benicia declined until the economic boom of World War II, in which the population doubled to about 7,000 residents. A major fire on March 22, 1945, destroyed a half-block of businesses, including the nearly-century-old “old brewery”, and the Solano Hotel, with flames briefly threatening the old state capitol, now a historical landmark.
A roof fire was quickly extinguished and the structure was not badly damaged. Losses were estimated at $125,000.Two developments in the early 1960s would completely change Benicia: The closing of the Benicia Arsenal in 1960–64, and the completion of the Benicia–Martinez Bridge in 1962. The closing of the Arsenal removed Benicia's traditional economic base, but allowed city leaders to create an industrial park on Arsenal land which eventually provided more revenue for the city than the Army had.
The completion of the Benicia-Martinez Bridge made it possible for the city to become a suburb of San Francisco and Oakland, and suburban development in the Benicia hills began in the late 1960s. On December 20, 1968, near the Benicia water pumping station on Lake Herman Road, the Zodiac Killer made his debut by killing Vallejo natives David Faraday and Betty Lou Jensen as they rested or "necked" in Faraday's car.
Near the same area on July 4 of the following year, the killer struck again, killing Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin and injuring Michael Mageau at the Blue Rock Springs Park in Vallejo, immediately next to Benicia. Northeast of the town's residential areas an oil refinery was built and completed in 1969 by Humble Oil (later Exxon Corporation).
The refinery was later bought by Valero Energy Corporation, a San Antonio-based oil company, in 2000. Between 1970 and 1995, the population of Benicia grew steadily at a rate of about 1,000 people per year, and the city changed from a poor, blue-collar town of 7,000 to a white-collar bedroom suburb of 27,000.
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