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. […]
Torrential Rains Not New in County History…and Neither are Droughts
Even though this current January was dry, at least we can read about local winters awash in rain a century and a half or two ago. The January 15th, 1965, Lafayette Sun took a look back at the rainfall records left from the California Mission era. “That rainstorms in 1805 created statewide havoc was verified […]
Did You Know?
Your Lafayette Historical Society pays more than $4,000 annually to the City of Lafayette to rent your History Room? Our e-Newsletter reaches more than 250 people. If each of those folks donated just $5 to the Historical Society, those funds would greatly help support this organization that contributes so much to your community. AND if […]
Upcoming Speaker Series: A Photographic Journey from the San Francisco Bay to the Sources of the Sacramento River
Mark your calendars for the next event from Lafayette Historical Society: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 7 p.m. in the Lafayette Library & Learning Center’s Community Hall “Water: A Photographic Journey from the San Francisco Bay to the Sources of the Sacramento River” We all take for granted the ability to open the tap and […]
Upcoming Speaker Series on EBMUD
Please Join us for our first Speakers Series Event of 2015 John Coleman, East Bay Municipal Utilities District Board Member will discuss the History of East Bay M.U.D. -How and why was it formed in 1923 and where will it be going in 2015 and beyond. -As our communities grow and water to support the families, […]
Upcoming Speaker Series on Building the Caldecott Tunnel
Meet Mary Solon and Mary McCosker authors of the new book: “Building the Caldecott Tunnel” They will take us from “Trails and Roads” to the “Fourth Bore” in images and stories of the growth of travel from East Contra Costa County to Alameda County through the years! “There was interest in building a tunnel between […]
