Local History

This month's Campbell Chamber of Commerce Luncheon will feature two special guests who will be talking about the Pruneyard shopping center: Traci Markel, Director of Retail Marketing for the Pruneyard and Kerry Perkins, Campbell Historical Museum Supervisor.

Join us for History Happy Hour as our special guest, Judge Paul Bernal, presents Locating the First House in Campbell: Sebastian Peralta's Adobe.

Tobin Gilman will be discussing The McGlincy Killings in Campbell, California: An 1896 Unsolved Mystery.

Recycle Book Club meets once a month (sometimes twice) here at Recycle Bookstore to discuss a book-of-the-month, like all book clubs do. The difference...

Join the Rotary Club of Campbell at our weekly lunch meeting and hear from featured speaker Tobin Gilman, local author/historian, on "The McGlincy Killings: an Unsolved Mystery."

March's History Happy Hour will follow Benjamin Campbell and many other members of the Campbell family during their 1846 westward migration into Santa Clara Valley. Historian and museum staff-member, Barney Terrell, will explore the family's journey and highlight the legacy...

Join us for the opening reception of the Ainsley House's exhibit season in downtown Campbell! This free event includes a look at both spring exhibitions: Looking Down/Looking Back and Dressed in Context.

Lecturer and ethnohistorian Alan Leventhal will discuss the history of the Ohlone in the Bay Area at our first History Happy Hour of 2018! Leventhal will also discuss significant events in Ohlone timeline including the current struggle for tribal recognition from the government.

Our fifth history walk will follow Campbell Avenue down a few blocks while explaining the civic and social importance of many of the still-standing buildings, used and built in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The walk will begin with...