Stuart Swiedler will be speaking for LHS again! Board a plane or ride the rails to experience the industrial transformation of the north coast of Contra Costa County. We’ll witness the scheme to produce warships, the struggle of a community to fend off the import of bombs and other nuclear weapons, learn the new names […]
Oral History: Russell & Joan Bruzzone – October 2006
Summary: Joan and Russell Bruzzone remember Lafayette in the 1950s. They discuss their ongoing residential and commercial real estate activities which created housing for hundreds of Lafayette families and gave the town its major commercial shopping center. To create the Plaza Shopping Center in the 1960s the Bruzzones removed 200,000 cubic feet of dirt from […]
What’s New: Come See Our OLD SHOES Display!
Upcoming Speaker Series: Lafayette: “Then and Now in Photographs”
You Won’t Want to Miss Our Speaker on November 22nd! Steve Hobbs, local photographer, is now creating a new pictorial history of Lafayette Please join the us when we welcome Steve Hobbs on November 22nd at 1:30 in the Lafayette Library & Learning Center’s Community Hall. Steve says “everything I learned about photography […]
Upcoming Speaker Series: Growing Grapes & Making Wine in Lamorinda: History & Present
Please join us for our October 25, 2015 Speaker Series Program From the Rossi Family Vineyards in 1917 To Sophisticated Winemakers Today The Lamorinda microclimate and topography has long been an ideal location for grape growing and now winemaking! Please join the Lafayette Historical Society in welcoming Leslie Ward, president of the Lamorinda Wine Growers […]
Upcoming Speaker Series: Water – The Lafayette Watershed, the Geography, Plants and Animals that Inhabit the Riparian Corridors
LHS is pleased to continue our Speaker Series programs focusing on the importance of water resources in our community. Janet Thomas has lived in Lafayette for 31 years and just a couple of blocks from Reliez Creek. She developed an environmental science course for the Acalanes Unified High School District and used that creek which […]
President’s Message
Happy Summer to all of you! Given that the current drought is having an effect on all of our lives, the Historical Society has featured two programs this year on water in our state (John Coleman from EBMUD spoke on the local water supply, its sources and infrastructure) and our region (Stu Swiedler on “Water […]
Looking Back on 40 Years at The Lafayette Historical Society– September 1975
When postage was only 10-cents and the Historical Society did not have a History Room, the only means of communication was a bulletin published monthly. Today postage is 49-cents, we have the History Room to visit and electronic means of communication. Times have changed drastically in 40 years, but as you’ll see in the following […]
LHS is Going Social!
We’re having a lot of fun at the Historical Society posting pictures to our website www.lafayette.history.org; to our Facebook Page; and to the “You Know You’re From Lafayette Ca. When” page on Facebook. We have photos from the “Sun” that we’ve spent many hours looking through and archiving. Most of these photos may only have […]
President’s Message
Spring is upon us and we’re looking forward to gearing up at the Historical Society with more programs and regularly scheduled newsletters! We were short of volunteers last year and not able to be as active as we would have liked to have been. We are following our March Speaker Series “It’s Name was M.U.D. […]
