For those who couldn’t make it out to the recent tour of the cemetery, here is a video of it.
Upcoming Two-Part Speaker Series: The History and Tour of the Lafayette Cemetery
Listen to stories of pioneers resting in our Cemetery and then take a tour! The Lafayette Cemetery is the final resting place for Benjamin Shreve, the man who named our city, and Jennie Bickerstaff Rosenberg, Lafayette’s beloved pioneer school teacher. History comes alive at the cemetery when visiting the plots of a Civil War veteran, […]
Upcoming Speaker Series: Ships, Bombs and Steel
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 […]