The 1860 stagecoach master’s house at Mankas Corner remains intact, with a plaque outside describing its history and towering pecan trees nearby that must date back to Manka’s day. Vezer on a recent day demonstrated how his Suisun Valley vision mixes the rustic Suisun Valley of old with some Wine Country elegance. “We saw what the potential was,” Vezer said. He noted the small commercial center of Mankas Corner was nearby. Over time, Vezer wanted to sell the wine that came from the Vezer Family Vineyard. His family intended to move to the Napa Valley in 1989, but took the back roads to Interstate 80, saw Suisun Valley and decided to move there instead. He bought several of the buildings there starting in 2006, including the ones that now house the wine tasting room and steak restaurant. Vezer family helps shape Mankas Cornerįrank Vezer is a Mankas Corner mover-and-shaker. All of this is an embryonic form of what is described in the Suisun Valley Strategic Plan, a step toward realizing a grander vision. The corner at Mankas Corner and Clayton roads has a wine tasting room, steak restaurant, furniture store, antique store and, in a former gas station, the Clay Station art co-op. It can be the “cultural heart” of the rural valley, it said. Mankas Corner can be the “Sonoma Square” of Suisun Valley, according to the county’s 2011 Suisun Valley Strategic Plan. It sees the corner as becoming an outpost on the edge of world-famous Sonoma and Napa Wine Country. Solano County today has plans for Mankas Corner – the possessive apostrophe is missing from the maps – that go far beyond being a pioneer era-flavored meeting place. SUISUN VALLEY - Christley Manka left the gold rush mines to run a general merchandise store in Suisun Valley that became a favorite place for 19th century farmers to come and play cards.
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