- Source: Colfax, Custer County, Colorado
Colfax was a short-lived communal farming community in Fremont County, Colorado Territory – now a ghost town in Custer County, Colorado, United States. The town was named after Vice President Schuyler Colfax. The Colfax post office operated from May 2, 1870, until January 16, 1879.
History
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. It was the first non-indigenous community in the Wet Mountain Valley in what is now Custer County, Colorado. The principal activities were farming and cheesemaking. The communal effort failed after a frost and the settlers left the town. However, many of the settlers remained in the area as ranchers and farmers.
See also
Bibliography of Colorado
Geography of Colorado
History of Colorado
Index of Colorado-related articles
List of Colorado-related lists
List of ghost towns in Colorado
List of post offices in Colorado
Outline of Colorado
References
External links
State of Colorado
History Colorado
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- Colfax, Custer County, Colorado
- Custer County, Colorado
- Lakewood, Colorado
- List of populated places in Colorado: P–Z
- List of United States counties and county equivalents
- List of lakes of Colorado
- List of counties by U.S. state and territory
- Exeter Sandstone
- List of populated places in Colorado by county: A–E
- Index of U.S. counties
