Incorrect historical information gets imbedded into a town’s history in odd and sometimes expensive ways.
Fake History: The errant roundabout
Fake History: Lafayette founder’s wishes honored in street name — again
From the Colorado Hometown News, Feb. 7, 2015:
For nearly five months, the Gough Avenue sign in Lafayette resident Bob Jencks’ window contradicted the name of the street running next to his house.
Jencks propped the sign up as a sentimental decoration after it was removed from the corner across from his home in September.
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Fake History: Lafayette’s Gough Avenue has always been Gough Avenue
First it was Gough, then it was Couch and then it was Gough again.
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Fake History: Let’s memorialize the correct Vulcan mine
In 2016, the Peaks at Old Laramie Trail Senior Living residence in Lafayette, Colo. placed a bronze interpretive sign commemorating the Vulcan mine on Coal Creek trail right-of-way about 1/2 mile west of S. Public Road. The plaque reads:
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