General Information – 2024 Home Tour
Ways to Purchase Tickets ONLINE You may purchase Tour Tickets through the Historical Society’s SQUARE site by clicking HERE. There is no service fee on your purchase transaction. An ONLINE ticket is $40.00 BY CHECK You may purchase tickets by CHECK through the MAIL. Make check out to Martinez Historical Society. No cash will be […]
General Meeting — Spring 2024
Video is Available on our YouTube channel
Downtown Martinez Sparkle Sip & Shop
Free Gift Wrap on All Sales!
We’ll Be There! – Art in the Park
Look for our booth! We’ll be selling notecards, Christmas cards and cookbooks. Also 2 or 3 gift baskets will be raffled off to lucky winners.
Community Fair – April 23rd
Support Non-Profits of Martinez! It’s a community faire on April 23 at the downtown plaza during the farmers market. 9:00am – 1:00pm Stroll around and visit our sister non profit organizations while sipping some coffee donated by Starbucks (9-11) and fill out a ticket for $50.00 “carrot cash” drawing! Find out what the organizations do […]
Booze & Blessings – Tom Greerty Guest Speaker
The First Quarterly Gathering of 2023 This well attended event featured lively stories about the strong community and rich history surrounding the drinking establishments of Martinez. Tom spoke for about an hour while those in attendance enjoyed old photos and some great laughs. Several members and other interested folks were unable to attend in-person and […]
Romantic Martinez at the Museum
Martinez Historical Society is looking for historic memorabilia (prior 1950) for our new Romantic Martinez display. Your family history can be part of our next exhibit!
Remembering Dwight Boynton
In the summer of 1940, global uncertainty was growing more dire by the day. The war in Asia was going poorly for the allies as the Japanese Imperial Navy was making bold and unchecked advances throughout the Pacific, capturing one island after another. In Europe, Adolph Hitler and the Nazi army had claimed much of […]
Quarterly Gathering: A Talk with School Superintendent
Join us in a discussion with Helen Rossi, Martinez Unified School District Superintendent. Read more…
2022 Halloween Spooktacular
We will be handing out treats and other surprises to the kiddos on our front porch. Last year kids took advantage of the photo opportunity with our life size Mr/Ms skeleton sitting on our front bench.