Annual Gala Installation Dinner

Annual Gala Installation Dinner February 16, 2012 Key Note Speaker: Richard Santos, President of the Santa Clara Valley Water District Oath of Office Administered by: Mayor José Esteves Omega Restaurant 90 South Park Victoria Drive 6:30 Cocktails 7:00 Buffet Dinner Tri-tip steak, Chicken Jerusalem, Pasta Primavera Cost: $24 per person Send your check and reservations to: Milpitas [...]

Museum Tour, Saturday, June 18

The next meeting of the Milpitas Historical Society, on Saturday, June 18, will be a tour of the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto. This will be a regular meeting that will feature a field trip instead of a speaker presentation. Members and friends interested in this tour will meet at 2:00 PM in [...]

Milpitas Community Tour Set for Early July

The Milpitas Historical Society will be sponsoring a “Community Tour” on Saturday, July 2, 2011. The tour is open to the public as well as to members of the Historical Society. Those interested will meet at the historic Alviso Adobe on Piedmont Road at 9:30 am for an informational talk by Greg Armendariz, our City [...]

Join Us Again September 14, 2011

There will be no Milpitas Historical Society meeting in July or in August and no newsletter for those months. We’ll get together again in September for a fascinating presentation on our area’s history by Rodger Skuse, on Wednesday, September 14. Complete details will be in the September newsletter.

Got Milpitas in your Attic?

As we announced at our last meeting, the Historical Society has been given the opportunity to display Milpitas history items in the glass cases in the lobby of our City Hall. We are hoping to find bits of Milpitas history that you can loan us (or donate if you prefer) that we can display there [...]

Genealogy Topic of May 11th Meeting

The next meeting of the Milpitas Historical Society, will be a presentation on researching genealogy, given by Trina Gentry. Ms Gentry serves as Second Vice President and Editor of Connections, a publication of Santa Clara County history and genealogies for the Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society. Her presentation will cover how to work [...]

Santa Clara County Archives

At our last meeting, on Wednesday, March 9, Trista Raezer, Archivist for the Santa Clara County Archives, showed us the rich resources housed at the new county archives, including such things as cattle brand registration and voting ballots of the past, as well as marriage, birth, death,, property, political, and other records. As part of [...]

Preserve Your Precious Family Heritage

The April 13, 2011, meeting of the Milpitas Historical Society will feature Kathleen Orlenko, a professional conservator, who will demonstrate how to protect and preserve your family documents and photographs as well as different ways to store your family treasures. The meeting will be held at 7 pm in the Community Room of the Milpitas [...]

Gilroy Hot Springs

The Gilroy Hot Springs presentation is scheduled for the Historical Society’s next  meeting on Wed. Sept. 8, 2010 at 7 pm in the Milpitas Library Community Room, N. Main Street. In a corner of Santa Clara Valley there exists an exceptional historical site that very few know anything about and one that far fewer have ever [...]

Foothills Tour June 26

The Milpitas Historical Society will be hosting a Foothills Tour on Saturday, June 26th. If you wish to attend this tour please contact Barbara Bowman at 942-1492.