About Lafayette:

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During his tour, Lafayette visited Fayetteville, North Carolina and noted that many other towns and cities in the fast-growing United States had chosen to name themselves after the famous French hero who had played an essential role in defeating the British (Note: it wasn?t until 1857, however, that Benjamin Shreve, postmaster of a small, oak-studded farming town in Northern California learned that his first choice for a town name, Centerville, was already taken and settled on Lafayette, instead).

He built his first of three homes in February of 1848, making it the first community in central Contra Costa County.

It was previously called Acalanus, a different spelling of the land grant, but the town wanted an identity of its own.

Steadily growing from the influx of American settlers, in 1857 the community of Acalanus acquired its own post office and renamed itself La Fayette.

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