The Moraga Adobe was abandoned until 1939, when Katherine Brown White Irvine, wife of James Irvine, began to restore the house and expand it. The family lived there until 1950. The Moraga Adobe became California Registered Landmark No. 509 in 1954...
Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).; Lafayette (Calif.) -- History.; Brown, Elam.;
This lantern was brought from Missouri to California in 1840 in a covered wagon train by Elam Brown, the founder of Lafayette. In 1847, he brought the lantern to the Lafayette area when he purchased the 3,328 acres of the Acalanes Rancho and built...
Brown, Thomas A., 1823-1889.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).; Translating services -- English-Spanish -- Contra Costa County -- History.
Brown, Thomas A., 1823-1889.; Local history -- Contra Costa County (Calif.).; Real property -- California -- Contra Costa County -- History.; Land tenure -- California -- Contra Costa County -- History.;