Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
Mexican military officer
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Sonoma
- In Sonoma
…in 1835 by military officer Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (who had been sent to investigate the Russian outpost at Fort Ross, 50 miles north-northwest) at the site of the Mission San Francisco Solano, the last (1823) and most northerly of the 21 Franciscan California missions. The name Sonoma comes from a…
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Vallejo
- In Vallejo
In 1850 military officer Mariano Guadeloupe Vallejo offered land for the new state capital of California. Although his offer was accepted and the new town of Vallejo was laid out, the legislature met there for only seven days in January 1852 and for a month in 1853. The establishment…
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