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 […]
Upcoming Speaker Series on Port Chicago Disaster
Residents of San Francisco, the East Bay, and the adjacent town of Port Chicago were jolted awake by a massive explosion that cracked windows and lit up the sky when ammunitions being loaded into two ships accidentally detonated. Everyone within 1,000 feet of the loading dock perished including 300 men, the majority of whom […]
Please Join us for our Annual Meeting, Potluck and Historical Presentation
When it opened in 2010, the overall goal of the Oakland Museum of California’s history gallery, called Coming to California, was to provide a new type of public space within the Museum—an inclusive place of inquiry, reflection, and public conversation about the history of California, with room for ongoing contributions by OMCA’s communities over time. Many “permanent” […]
What’s in the works for Summer Programs from LHS
Save Wednesday, July 2 at 2:30 for a commemoration of the July 17, 1944 Port Chicago explosion. Wayne Korsinen, local World War II Historian and Isabel Jenkins Ziegler, Supervisory Museum Curator at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine NM will provide historic and current perspectives on this significant local disaster. Nilda Rego, Contra Costa Historian and author […]
Please join us for Lafayette Historical Society’s First Speaker Series Presentation of 2014!
Come listen to Steve Minniear speak about sailors, Seabees, and the stories behind all those old buildings you used to see in and around the Interstate 580/680 intersection. Between 1942 and 1946 over 300,000 sailors lived, worked, trained, and transited through what is now Dublin, California. Camp Parks, Camp Shoemaker and Shoemaker Naval Hospital played […]
Please Join Us in Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Through Mr. Fitzpatrick’s presentation we will gain a greater appreciation and understanding of the immortal Gettysburg Address in the context of the pivotal Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in July 1863. + He will discuss the enormous personal, political and policy pressures impacting President Lincoln as he prepared the speech and when he presented it […]
Upcoming Speaker Series
On August 24, 2010 Caltrans, the Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA) and other project partners marked an historic moment for the Caldecott Fourth Bore Project. Standing next to a monolithic custom-designed, electric-powered road header, dignitaries gathered at the tunnel’s eastern portal in Orinda to mark the beginning of a project that had been years in […]
Key Events of the 20th Century East Bay Interpreted Through Aerial Views and Images of an Electric Railroad
Stu Swiedler last spoke for the Lafayette Historical Society in April 2011. His presentation received excellent reviews and comments. In the two years since that presentation, he has expanded his collection and will share his findings with us. He will be discussing the role of the East Bay Hills in WWII and the Korean War. […]
