Cinnabar School is on Skillman Lane, north of downtown Petaluma. First established in 1859, it was one of the county’s first schools. After a half century in a one-room building, the school moved into ...

Before hosting an auto mall and housing, the north Vallejo hills led Solano County in the area”s most successful mining industry – mercury. Outcroppings of cinnabar ore, which processed into mercury, ...

A “Great Drought” from 1862-65 destroyed the cattle-based economy of our region. Then it received a boost from a “quicksilver rush.” That “boom” attracted the interest of George Hearst and the ...

While the California gold strike played a significant role in Napa County history, it was the discovery and mining of local cinnabar deposits that exerted a greater local influence. Beginning in the ...