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Vacaville, CA - History
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Welcome to the Vacaville Home page. The Vacaville Home page provides as much information as possible on Vacaville. Knowing Vacaville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Vacaville’s Home page, you will also find Vacaville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Vacaville has a population of 99397. 52.2% of Vacaville’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.8 are female. 49.9% of Vacaville is married and 65.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $447,517, and the average rent is $1,757. Household median income in Vacaville is $93,291, and the individual median income is $41,337. Vacaville’s Ethnic is the following: White(64.6%), Hispanic(24.4%), Black(9.5%), Asian(9.3%), Multiple(8.8%), Other(6.1%), Pacific(0.9%), Native(0.8%).
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 in 1842, Vaca and Peña's families settled in the area of Lagoon Valley. Peña's Adobe home is the oldest standing building, built in 1842.Discussions for the sale of a portion of land to William McDaniel began in August 1850. A written agreement was signed on December 13, 1851, forming a township, nine square miles of land were deeded to William McDaniel for $3,000, and the original city plans were laid out from that.
In the agreement, McDaniel's would name the new town after Juan Manuel Cabeza Vaca. In 1880, Leonard Buck created the California Fruit Shipping Association, as well as the L.W. and F.H. Buck Company, an early company selling auctioned fruit in the state, and Vacaville was soon home to many large produce companies and local farms which flourished due to the Vaca Valley's rich soil. It officially became a city in 1892.In 1885, the first grade school built was Ulatis School.
In 1898, the town's first high school was built, Vacaville Union High School.In 1968, the Vacaville Heritage Council was established. In August 2020, parts of Vacaville were evacuated due to the Hennessey Fire, which resulted in the burning of over 315,000 acres (127,476 ha) in five counties, including in Vacaville where farms and homes were destroyed.On August 29, 2022, a truck transporting tomatoes crashed on Interstate 80 in Vacaville, injuring four, splattering over 150,000 of the tomatoes onto the eastbound section of the freeway, and significantly delaying eastbound traffic for hours.
The peculiarity of the freeway accident subsequently resulted in international news coverage.
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