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277535, 2411591. Website. www .lovelafayette .org. Lafayette (formerly La Fayette) [7] is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. As of 2020, the city's population was 25,391. It was named after the Marquis de Lafayette, a French military officer of the American Revolutionary War .
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (/ ˌ l ɑː f iː ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l æ f-/, French:), was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.
Lafayette Creek begins as a number of small streams in the Briones hills at an elevation of 1483' above sea level, to the north of the city of Lafayette, California. [1] [2] The creek also receives flow from the Lafayette Reservoir. Though many of its upper tributaries are intermittent, Lafayette Creek has perennial flow due to input from urban ...
Lafayette Morehouse is an intentional community conceived in 1968 in Lafayette, California. The lifestyle it practices is often referred to as “Morehouse”. Inspired by its founder Dr. Victor Baranco and his first wife Dr. Suzanne Baranco, and now by his widow Dr. Cynthia Baranco, Morehouse has been a continuous experiment in group living for over 50 years, one of few such communities still ...
The Lafayette hillside memorial is a collection of religious symbols, accompanied by a large sign, in Lafayette, California. The memorial commemorates soldiers killed in the Iraq War and War in Afghanistan, with the sign containing a running total of the death count as recorded by the US Department of Defense. The monument began to raise ...
Acalanes High School. / 37.90481°N 122.09842°W / 37.90481; -122.09842. Acalanes High School is a public secondary school located in Lafayette, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, within Contra Costa County. Acalanes was the first of four high schools established in the Acalanes Union High School District.
The Lafayette Library and Learning Center was first proposed to the City of Lafayette at the end of 2003. The city voted to support the Library in January 2004. [4] In 2004 the membership of the Glenn Seaborg Learning Consortium was finalized and funding was pursued. In November 2004 the project was awarded $11.9M by the State of California.
Location. Los Angeles, California, U.S. Coordinates. 34°3′42.7″N 118°17′0.5″W. / 34.061861°N 118.283472°W / 34.061861; -118.283472. A statue of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette is installed in Los Angeles ' Lafayette Park, in the U.S. state of California. The sculpture was installed at the park's Wilshire Boulevard ...