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: Let’s memorialize the correct Vulcan mine

An expensive bronze plaque that memorializes the Vulcan mine in Lafayette, Colo. is chock-full of errors.

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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