Río Vista (river view), is in Solano County, on the Sacramento River. Modern. Incorrect construction. It should be Vista del Río.
Tehachapi, an Indian word of which the meaning has not been ascertained, is the name of the mountain pass in Kern County across the Sierra Nevada, of which it approximately marks the southern limit, and of a town in the same county, thirty-five miles southeast of Bakersfield.
“In the famous Tahichapah Pass was a tribe called by themselves Ta-hi-cha-pa-han-na, and by the Kern Indians Ta-hich. This tribe is now extinct.”—(Powers’ Tribes of California.)
Vacaville is situated in a beautiful and fertile valley in Solano County. It received its name from a family named Vaca, who were at one time prominent in that region. Manuel Vaca, the founder of the family, was a native of New Mexico, and came to California in 1841. “He was a hospitable man of good repute.”
