Benicia Historical Museum
This fascinating town has a special place in U.S. history, and that comes to life at the Benicia Historical Museum. See a sampling in this short video.
Benicia Historical Museum
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Don't Miss this Place When Visiting Benicia| Benicia, CA Travel Vlog Part 2
The boss traveler presents Benicia, California part 2. Take a tour with us in the Benicia State Historic Park which features the Benicia State Capitol and Fischer Hanlon House. There's a lot to learn in these historic place, the museum is the only pre-Sacramento building still standing and the Fischer Hanlon House is a piece of hotel way back in the golden rush era. Let's treasure them while it's still here and before it's too late.
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TOUR MY HOMETOWN: BENICIA, CALIFORNIA
Hello, this video is a quick view of downtown Benicia, mostly through a moving bicycle perspective.
Benicia is a real historic town. In 1846, Robert Semple and Thomas Larkin originally agreed with General Mariano Vallejo to name the town after Vallejo's wife, Francisca. However, people found the name too easily confused with the city San Francisco, which is just northeast from Benicia, so the former name changed to be called by one of her middle-names instead, Benicia.
The city was founded even before the Gold Rush. In fact, the city is famous for the word of gold (discovered at Sutter's Mill in Coloma) leaking out in Von Pfister's Saloon by Bennett on First Street. James Marshall and Sutter swore Bennett to secrecy to go to San Francisco to assay the gold. While waiting in the saloon for the ship to California, Bennett was drunk and let the word out in 1848! A plaque on First Street commemorates this moment in history.
The town contains a neat Pre-Civil War army fort (12 years. before the Civil War started). It was also the state capital for a year (1853-1854). The camels from the army camel experiment (from Saudi Arabia) ended up here) and were stored and auctioned off in what are now called the Camel Barns.
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The Spirits of First Street Benicia Ghostwalk 2008
California of the Past Book 4 Disk 8 The Spirits of First Street Benicia Ghostwalk 2008
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Benicia Community Park, Benicia, CA
Benicia is a waterside city in Solano County, California, United States. It served as the state capital for nearly thirteen months from 1853 to 1854. The population was 26,997 at the 2010 census. The city is located in the San Francisco Bay Area along the north bank of the Carquinez Strait. Benicia is just east of Vallejo and across the strait from Martinez. Elizabeth Patterson has served as Mayor of Benicia since 2007.
The town is divided into four areas: the East Side (east of First Street), the West Side (west of First Street), Southampton (the newer suburban neighborhoods north of Interstate 780), and the industrial park. Most of the town's older homes are on the east and west sides. Southampton contains primarily single-family housing developments and condominiums, most of which were built between 1970 and 2000. The East Side includes the Benicia Arsenal, a former United States Army armory, which was bought by the city and is now used for a variety of purposes, most notably as live-work spaces for artists. The Arsenal is home to several historic (ca. 1860) landmark buildings such as The Clock Tower, the Camel Barn, and the Jefferson Street Mansion. The industrial park lies to the northeast of the residential areas of the city, and includes the Valero oil refinery. The Benicia State Recreation Area is on the far west edge of the city.
The main retail area in Benicia is First Street, which attracts out-of-town antique and boutique shoppers and those seeking small-town, historic charm. In 1987 Benicia was selected to participate in the California Main Street Program.
Connections to Benicia include Interstate 680 from Martinez to the south and Cordelia Junction (Fairfield) to the north, and Interstate 780, Columbus Parkway, and other local roads from Vallejo to the west. Amtrak also runs past the city north towards Sacramento, but the nearest train station lies in Martinez across the Carquinez Strait. Railroad tracks carrying Amtrak and Union Pacific Railroad lines cross the strait alongside the Benicia–Martinez Bridge.
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Benicia, California 170 years old!
A celebration commemorating the 170th anniversary of it's founding was held on May 21, 2017 at the historic Benicia State Capitol. Songs were sung, brilliant music was played, poems were recited and history was retold.
Memorial Day 2015 - Benicia, California
Annually the Benicia Historical Society sponsors a Memorial Day tribute at the Benicia Arsenal Cemetery. This fitting ceremony honors all those who have died in service to their country.
Benicia Community Park
A tour of Benicia Community Park Benicia, CA
Benicia old towne
Benicia old town
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Benicia InThe 40s
Dale Killan describes life in Benicia in the 1940s.
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Benicia, CA Train Depot
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This building, originally erected in the mid 1890's in the town of Banta in Contra Costa County, was moved and erected at its present site in 1902. The depot location, at what was the entrance to the city and the center of Benicia's commercial and industrial activities for many years, made this the most visible and visited building in Benicia. The depot was the last stop before train and travelers boarded the largest ferry in the world, the Solano/Contra Costa Ferry, which carried them across the Carquinez Strait to Port Costa. The SP closed the Benicia depot as a railroad business office on August 20, 1958, and the building soon fell into disrepair. In 1987, however, Benicia was selected to participate in the California Main Street Program, a grassroots downtown revitalization program sponsored and coordinated by the State of California Department of Commerce and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. As part of this program, the historic Benicia depot was restored and reopened for public uses in April, 2002.
Shots are around this historic depot in the morning hours of the day. Enjoy!! Shot 8/6/14
Benicia State Recreation Area
Visiting one of the state parks in Solano County, California. For more details visit my traveling site bosstraveler.com
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Benicia Arsenal Post Cemetery - Memorial Day 2014
Each year the Benicia Historical Society sponsors the Memorial Day Ceremony. This event is one of the finest in the Bay Area of California
Haunted House Benicia California Commandants Quarters
Video of the Commandants Quarters, a haunted house in historical Benicia California, built in 1860
Benicia, California City Council: Industrial Safety Ordinance - Valero opposition
On July 17, 2018 the Benicia, California City Council was asked to reconsider directing City Staff to review and make recommendations on a City Industrial Safety Ordinance. This video provides the opposition from Valero and the unique disclosure of refinery air monitoring. Note, refinery emissions data that is made available is not publicly disclosed at the present time for 12 or more months in arrears of the emissions data collection.
Benicia Arsenal Post Cemetery Memorial Day Ceremony, May 27, 2019
Every year the Benicia Historical Society's Memorial Day Ceremony honors those who have given their lives in service to our country and
Constitution as well as all those who are serving or have served in the United States Uniformed Services.
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Governmental Ag No Pundits just an actual Farmer telling the real story about how California Politics can get in the way of putting food on your table with comments from Elected Officials representing people living in Agricultural communities in California's Central Valley. See how water projects and solutions for a devastating California Drought play second fiddle to the construction of Pro Sports Stadiums in Sacramento and Southern California. Featuring interviews with Congressman Jeff Denham, California State Senator Tom Berryhill, California State Senator Anthony Cannella, California Assemblyman Adam Gray and California Assembly Leader Kristin Olsen. AgStories.com