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Colfax Avenue is the main street that runs east–west through the Denver metropolitan area in Colorado. As U.S. Highway 40 , it was one of two principal highways serving Denver before the Interstate Highway System was constructed.
May 1: Town of Colfax incorporates in what is now the Sun Valley neighborhood. [68] 1892 The Denver Post newspaper begins publication as the Evening Post. [25] January: The competing town of Brooklyn incorporated an area inside the town of Colfax setting up a six month fight that was ultimately won by the town of Colfax. [68]
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Colfax was platted in 1866 or 1867 as a railroad and farm-to-market town along the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Coal mines were also located to the south of town. Mineral water was discovered in the area in 1875, which led to the development of the mineral water-based health industry in Colfax.
Golden Avenue was the town's main street, so named as it was the link between Denver and Golden. It was renamed Colfax Avenue in 1896. In 1897 the Town of Colfax was annexed by the City of Denver. [4] In the early 1900s the area that is now known as West Colfax was sparsely populated with several mansions and scattered squatter's shacks.
The city's passenger rail station is located at 99 Railroad Street in the heart of town. Amtrak Train 5, the westbound California Zephyr, is scheduled to depart Colfax at 11:48 a.m. daily with service to Roseville, Sacramento, Davis, Martinez, and Emeryville across the bay from San Francisco.
1889 view of Colfax Colfax in 2007, looking southeast Intersection of Canyon and Main Street, ca. 1938. Palouse Indians were the first known human inhabitants of the Colfax area. White settlers arrived in the summer of 1870 and soon built a sawmill. A flour mill and other businesses followed, and Colfax soon grew into a prosperous town.
Colfax was founded in 1870 as a communal settlement of 397 German immigrants led by General Carl Wulsten. The colonists had been organized by the German Colonization society of Chicago. [1] The town was named for Vice President Schuyler Colfax. It was the first non-indigenous community in the Wet Mountain Valley in what is now Custer County ...