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.

Colfax was founded in 1870 as a communal settlement of 397 German immigrants led by General Carl Wulsten.

[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, Colorado.

[2] The communal effort failed after a frost and the settlers left the town.