Thanks and welcome to those of you who have recently joined the Historical Society. We hope you will enjoy receiving our newsletter and will plan to attend our upcoming programs. Should you have comments or suggestions to send our way please contact us at lafayette.history@comcast.net.     Speaking of programs….we are appreciative of those people who have entertained […]

  Stephen Drew is passionate about railroads and about the Virginia & Truckee short line railroad in particular, which is only natural since he recently retired after 35 years as Chief Curator of the California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento. On Wednesday, July 18 at 3 p.m. the Lafayette Historical Society Speaker’s Series offers the chance to hear Mr. Drew trace the history of what he calls “one of America’s […]

An inquiring Lafayette resident recently dropped into the historical society with the closest we’ve ever gotten to an aquatic engineering question: when was the Weir at the end of 4th Street built and why? Luckily for our curious visitor, the weir at 4th street not only has a story, it has a partner at Victoria Court. Weirs, which are a […]

  The dirty deed actually happened on November 24, 1980. Thirty-one years ago. And Pleasant Hill has been part of Lafayette ever since. Don’t believe it? City Resolution Number 40-80. Look it up. The story begins back in 1821, coincidentally the same year Mexico declared her independence from Spain. A British ship named Lady Blackwood slipped into Bodega Bay, which was, of course, Mexican territory at the […]

  Nancy Flood, Board Member Nancy is a local gal having grown up in Lafayette. She attended Lafayette Elementary School and Acalanes before receiving her college degree and teaching credential from San Francisco State. Before her retirement she taught Kindergarten at Burton School and Montecito School (both now closed) and then at Springhill School until her retirement. Nancy is from two local historical families, the Lamps and the Floods. The Lamps arrived from Germany […]