Walnut Creek, CA news and local guide

After the American annexation of California, a small settlement called The Corners grew where roads from Pacheco and Lafayette met, at today's Mount Diablo Boulevard and North Main Street. The first town settler, William Slusher, built a house on the creek, which Americans called Nuts Creek in 1849. In 1855 Milo Hough of Lafayette built the Walnut Creek House hotel at The Corners, followed by a blacksmith shop and a store, and Hiram Penniman laid out a townsite and realigned Main Street. A post office named Walnut Creek opened in December 1862, and the pioneer Homer Shuey platted the downtown streets in 1871 and 1872 on part of his family's cattle ranch, a pattern kept to this day. The Southern Pacific arrived in 1891, and the town was incorporated on October 21, 1914. Sources Wikipedia: Walnut Creek, California