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Livermore was founded in 1869 by William Mendenhall, who set aside 100 acres for a townsite along the new railroad and named it for his friend Robert Livermore, an English-born rancher who had settled in the valley in the 1830s and had already died in 1858, before the town existed.

Livermore was platted on November 4, 1869, as a railroad town and incorporated in 1876.

Livermore had 87,955 residents at the 2020 census, living in about 30,922 households averaging 2.74 people, with about 72 percent of homes owner-occupied and a median owner-occupied home value of about $1.1 million.

Livermore is home to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the United States' premier national security laboratories, and to the California site of Sandia National Laboratories.

The chemical element livermorium, element 116 on the periodic table, was named in honor of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the city.

Livermore's Centennial Light, hanging in Fire Station No. 6 on East Avenue, has been burning since 1901 and is recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's longest-lasting light bulb; donated to the fire department by Dennis Bernal, it now glows at only about 4 watts.

The Livermore Valley is promoted as California's oldest wine region, anchored by historic producers such as Wente Vineyards and Concannon Vineyard.

Livermore is the easternmost city in the San Francisco Bay Area and a gateway between the Bay Area and California's Central Valley.

The famous Altamont Pass wind farms, among the first large wind farms in the United States, spin on the hills just east of Livermore.