Benicia History
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Season 2, Episode 2 – Rancho Suscol (part 2)
The Benicia Historical Museum’s COVID Quarantine Camelcast returns for a second season! Providing a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. Season 2 of the Camelcast resumes with the final episode examining the history of Rancho Suscol. The area of this 84,000...
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Season 2, Episode 1 – Rancho Suscol
The Benicia Historical Museum’s COVID Quarantine Camelcast returns for a second season! Providing a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. Season 2 of the COVID Quarantine Camelcast kicks of with the first of two episodes examining the history of Rancho...
Brendan Riley’s Solano Chronicles: Unusual History of Benicia’s Camel Barns
Solano Chronicles, Jan. 31, 2021 By Brendan Riley The U.S. Army’s experiment in using camels to haul supplies in the 1850s and 1860s has been described in scores, if not hundreds, of research papers, government reports, newspaper columns, books and even a couple of...
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Episode 11 – Lincoln’s Last Read and the Benicia Connection
The 11th episode of the Benicia Historical Museum’s COVID Quarantine Camelcast is available now! Providing a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. In the final Camelcast episode of 2020, Executive Director Elizabeth d'Huart is joined once again by Museum...
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Episode 9 – A Capital Capitol
Listen to the ninth episode of the Benicia Historical Museum’s COVID Quarantine Camelcast! Providing a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. In A Capital Capitol, Executive Director Elizabeth d'Huart and Museum Research Historian Dr. Jim Lessenger discuss...
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Episode 8 – Benicia’s Little-Known Gem
Listen to the eighth episode of the Benicia Historical Museum’s COVID Quarantine Camelcast! Providing a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. In this episode, Executive Director Elizabeth d’Huart and Museum volunteer Allan Gandy talk about The...
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Episode 7 – Benicia’s Early VIPs
Listen to the seventh episode of the Benicia Historical Museum’s COVID Quarantine Camelcast! Hosted by Benicia resident and BHS graduate Dean Putong, our podcast provides a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. In the final episode recorded prior to...
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Episode 6 – Gold Rush in the Golden State
Listen to the sixth episode of the Benicia Historical Museum’s COVID Quarantine Camelcast!Hosted by Benicia resident and BHS graduate Dean Putong, our podcast provides a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. In Gold Rush in the Golden State, Dean...
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Episode 5 – Rezanov and Concepción
The fifth episode of the Benicia Historical Museum’s COVID Quarantine Camelcast is now live! Our 2020 summer intern and podcast host Dean Putong has returned to Yale for his senior year, but he recorded several episodes of our COVID Quarantine Camelcast with Executive...
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Episode 4 – Matthew Turner
The fourth episode of the Benicia Historical Museum’s COVID Quarantine Camelcast is now live! Hosted by Benicia resident and BHS graduate Dean Putong, our podcast provides a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. In Matthew Turner: Benicia's Genius Who...
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Episode 3 – California’s Place in the Civil War
The third episode of the Benicia Historical Museum's COVID Quarantine Camelcast is now live! Hosted by Benicia resident and BHS graduate Dean Putong, our podcast provides a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. In The War Within the State Meets the...
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Episode 2 – Manifest Destiny, or “Do You Have a Flag?”
The second episode of the Benicia Historical Museum's COVID Quarantine Camelcast is now available! Hosted by Benicia resident and BHS graduate Dean Putong, our podcast provides a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. In this episode, Dean and...
Today in History: July 23 – Former President Ulysses S. Grant Dies
On July 23, 1885, just after completing his memoirs, Civil War hero and former president Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer. A brief biography of Grant can be found on the History Chanel Website at...
COVID Quarantine Camelcast – Episode 1 – Why Are There No Camels at the Camel Barns?
Welcome to the first episode of the Benicia Historical Museum's COVID Quarantine Camelcast! Hosted by Benicia resident and BHS graduate Dean Putong, our new Museum podcast series provides a “camel’s eye view” of Benicia’s unique history. Our 2020 summer intern,...
Today in History: June 19 – Juneteenth
On this day in History, June 19th, 1865, Union soldiers arrive in Galveston, Texas with news that the Civil War is over...Posted by Benicia Historical Museum at the Camel Barns on Friday, June 19, 2020
Benicia Historical Museum Marks 35th Anniversary
After a year and a half of renovations, on May 19, 1985, the former Benicia Arsenal Building #9 became the Camel Barn Museum and opened its doors to the public. 35 years later, the Benicia Historical Museum celebrates the hard work and dedication of the many...
Benicia’s History – The First Pandemic
By Executive Director Elizabeth d'Huart, March 20, 2020 As I was preparing the Spring edition of the Museum newsletter, I received the Solano County “Shelter in Place” notification, an unsurprising development considering other neighboring county shutdowns and...
Solano Chronicles – Matthew Turner
By Brendan Riley Published in the Vallejo Times-Herald, March 29, 2020 Captain Matthew Turner designed and built more watercraft than any other American shipbuilder working at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries – a total of 228 brigantines, sloops,...