The New Student's Reference Work/Vallejo, Cal.

Vallejo (vȧl-yā′hṓ) Cal., a city in Solano County, at the mouth of Napa Creek, which empties into the northeast part of San Pablo Bay. Vallejo is connected by steamship lines with San Francisco (30 miles to the southwest); it is also reached by the Southern Pacific Railroad, as is South Vallejo. Adjacent to both is the Mare Island Navy-Yard (U. S.), which gives employment to about 2,000 men. There is also a quicksilver mine in the vicinity, while the region is a fertile one for farming and fruit-growing. Besides its lumber yards, planing-mills and fish-packing establishments, it has flour-mills, brick-yards, a tannery, beer-bottling works, a cement-works and carbonated water factories. It has a Sailor's Club house, a Home for Orphans, a Carnegie Library and the St. Vincent's Convent and school. Founded in 1851, the city was designed at one time as the capital of the state and here for a couple of years (1851-3) were held the annual session of the state legislature. Population 11,340.