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By Mary McCosker,Mary Solon

modern Lafayette is a contemporary East Bay suburb with a protracted and fascinating historical past of individuals, agriculture, and trade. the tale started in the summertime of 1846, while Elam Brown and thirteen households left St. Joseph, Missouri, in wagon trains and launched into a sixmonth trip west to set up new houses and lives. by means of February 1848, Brown and his family members had bought the Rancho Acalanes in Contra Costa County from a San Francisco financier and had proven the cost that may later turned Lafayette. steadily Brown bought his land to different settlers, and the group started to develop. finally houses, shops, roads, faculties, and church buildings have been equipped. In those pages, the genesis of Lafayette, in addition to the tale of its creators and early citizens, is printed in stirring early imagery.

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