
Incorrect historical information gets imbedded into a town’s history in odd and sometimes expensive ways.
Historical insights and discoveries for Lafayette, Colorado.
Incorrect historical information gets imbedded into a town’s history in odd and sometimes expensive ways.
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.
Continue reading “Fake History: Lafayette founder’s wishes honored in street name — again”
First it was Gough, then it was Couch and then it was Gough again.
Continue reading “Fake History: Lafayette’s Gough Avenue has always been Gough Avenue”
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:
Continue reading “Fake History: Let’s memorialize the correct Vulcan mine”