Myrtle Findley’s Collection of Letters from Servicemen during World War II
The Colfax women who rode to the 1934 World’s Fair on a motorcycle
Chinese laborers did not use bosun’s chairs and hanging wicker baskets in the railroad construction at Cape Horn (position paper). This is a PDF file.
Illinoistown was not renamed as Colfax. Colfax was a new town created near Illinoistown (position paper). This is a PDF file.
Dr. Peers and the Colfax School for the Tuberculous, by Roger Staab. This book tells the story of Dr. Robert Peers and the history of treating tuberculosis in the Colfax area in the early twentieth century. It is is illustrated with more than 50 photographs, maps, and historical advertisements of the TB hospitals and treatment centers in the Colfax area. This book is a PDF file.
A walk through Colfax, California, in 1922. A personal account by John Alfred Rambottini.
Interview with John Alfred Rambottini (1988)
Grace Hubley and the Grace Hubley Foundation
Learning more about collecting tokens
Colfax Area Historical Society (CAHS) and Colfax Heritage Museum (CHM) 