Solon

Solon
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	30.92°N 77.12°E
Altitude:	1,600 m (5,200 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Solan
State/Province:	Himachal Pradesh
Country:	India
Transport links
Kalka-Simla Railway

Solon was a hill cantonment in the Simla District, thirty miles from Simla, on the road to Kalka. It is also a station on the Kalka-Simla Railway

The date the cantonment was established is unclear. Possible dates range from prior to 1855 to c 1863. It was originally used as a rifle range.

Spelling variants

Solon, Solan (current)

FIBIS resources

• St Stephen, Solon. FIBIS database. Photographs of the church and eleven gravestones.

External links

• Solan Wikipedia
• Kasauli Brewery Wikipedia. The brewery was moved from Kasauli to Solan. Page 3 of this document advises the brewery was established in 1855 in Solan. original pdf html version himachal.nic.in
• 1800s Solan No. 1: The accidental legacy The breweries in Solan and Kasauli. livemint.com
• Mohan Meakin Limited Wikipedia
• From the photograph album of Harry Lamming, Battery Sergeant-Major of the 17th Pack Battery RGA. www.king-emperor.com
  • Anglican Church in Solan - August 1922
  • Solan from Telegraph Hill - August 1922
• Photographs by siddharthashukla on flickr.com
  • Solan Town 1, Solan Town 2
  • Solan Brewery 1 Solan Brewery 2

Historical books online

• "Solon" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 23, page 73.
• "Solon", page 119 Gazetteer Of the Simla District 1904 Google Books