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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.
Colfax Museum: Lakewood: Jefferson: Denver Area: History Museum: website, History of Schuyler Colfax and Colfax Avenue: the Longest, Wickedest Main Street in America that bears his name. Colorado Governor's Mansion: Denver: Denver: Denver Area: Historic house: Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo Museum: Pueblo: Pueblo: Southeast: Medical
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Schuyler Colfax served as Speaker of the House under Abraham Lincoln and vice president under Ulysses S. Grant. The History Museum opened a permanent exhibit dedicated to the one-time South Bend ...
As of 1987 the Dey Mansion has been open to the public as a museum, and it is owned and operated by the County of Passaic Department of Cultural & Historic Affairs. It serves as a meeting place and reenactment center for many historic groups such as the Hester Schuyler-Colfax Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution .
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.
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 ...