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This area was part of Rancho Soscol, deeded to General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo in 1844 . According to the story, his favorite white mare fell off a raft while being transported across the Carquinez Straits and survived drowning by swimming to an island, which he named ''Isla de la Yegua'' (Mare Island) in her honor. The Napa River widens and forms an excellent harbor between Mare Island and the mainland. The United States bought Mare Island in July, 1852, for use as a naval shipyard. Two years later, on September 16, 1854, Mare Island became the first permanent U.S. naval installation on the West Coast . Mare Island was used for more than a century as the United States Navy 's Mare Island Naval Shipyard . Most of the naval shipyard was decommissioned in the 1990s and is now being developed for various public and private enterprises and activities. |
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