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Topics that don't fit elsewhere and ...
Bunshah Index of Local Newspapers. (HUGE files for cable users and NOT for slow DSL)
Histories about Tri-Valley land grants (disenos) and townships
Histories about local buildings and their use.
Histories about public and private services and utilities.
Early persons of local historical interest
Sanborn Insurance maps 1884, 1888, 1893, 1907, 1917 and pre-WWII Topographic maps of East Bay
All LHG Newsletters, Chapters of Livermore, Local Newspapers on Microfilm, The Independent newspaper issues
City Records Back to 1876!
"Life seemed a lot simpler in horse & buggy days when the dollar had a better stretch. According to handwritten minutes preserved and stored in the City Clerk’s vault, the following financial matters were duly recorded in August 1877 at a Livermore town meeting: A motion was approved to pay the Clerk’s monthly salary in the amount of $7.90 and the Town Treasurer reported a balance of $160.06 in the treasury (after all bills were paid).
More enlightening records of public meetings are on the City website due to Livermore resident Don Meeker (former City Historian, 27-year Livermore resident, and retiree from Sandia National Laboratory).
Starting in 2002, Don set up a computer in the second-floor lobby of City Hall and volunteered volumes of time transcribing original leather-bound journals filled with historical handwritten records too fragile to electronically image. He started with the Town of Livermore’s first Board of Trustees meeting held May 15, 1876. Still at it six years later in 2008, he worked on minutes from 1918."
Click to see these on-line historical records and then select City Council Records, which include agenda packets, ordinances, resolutions or summary agendas all the way back to 1876. – Updated text and web link from Livermore Newsletter article, Issue 28, Summer/Fall 2008
Garrett "Gary" Drummond (1929-2018) - First City Historian - Wrote many LHG Articles
