Lafayette Historical Society

Lafayette, California

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Upcoming Speaker Series: Water – The Lafayette Watershed, the Geography, Plants and Animals that Inhabit the Riparian Corridors

August 6, 2015 3 Comments

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 […]

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Upcoming Speaker Series: A Photographic Journey from the San Francisco Bay to the Sources of the Sacramento River

April 9, 2015 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Upcoming Speaker Series on EBMUD

February 28, 2015 Leave a Comment

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, […]

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Upcoming Speaker Series on Building the Caldecott Tunnel

October 21, 2014 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Upcoming Speaker Series on Port Chicago Disaster

June 7, 2014 Leave a Comment

  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 […]

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Please Join us for our Annual Meeting, Potluck and Historical Presentation

April 15, 2014 Leave a Comment

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” […]

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What’s in the works for Summer Programs from LHS

April 15, 2014 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Please join us for Lafayette Historical Society’s First Speaker Series Presentation of 2014!

January 28, 2014 Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Please Join Us in Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

October 10, 2013 1 Comment

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 […]

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Upcoming Speaker Series

July 9, 2013 2 Comments

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 […]

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History Room
open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Lafayette Library
& Learning Center,
enter on Golden Gate Way
925-385-2297


Mailing Address: PO Box 133 Lafayette, CA 94549

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Memories of living and working in Lafayette are precious. Let us help you share those memories with others who value the town’s history. Call the Lafayette Historical Society’s Oral History line to set up a brief oral history phone interview with one of our friendly volunteers. Together, we can preserve the vibrant narrative of our town for generations to come.


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Recent Posts

  • Oral History: Maeve Pessis — July 22, 2009
  • Lafayette Library Display – Honoring the Bicentennial Farewell Tour of the Marquis de Lafayette
  • Oral History: Gwen Lennox — August 8th, 2009
  • Oral History: Lois Laine — June 12th, 2009
  • Out Of The Archives: The 1942 Acalanes High School Yearbook

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