Colfax Main Street Street Planter - Colfax, California
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member brwhiz
N 39° 06.079 W 120° 57.192
10S E 676990 N 4330014
This planter, created to celebrate the American Bicentennial, is located on Main Street at the north end of downtown Colfax, California.
Waymark Code: WMG8MG
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 01/29/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member condor1
Views: 4

This small community of about 2,000 people created a planter at the end of the one block long downtown shopping district. As part of this planter, they included a small monitor, a device that was used to spray a powerful jet of water against gold-bearing layers of gravel to break it loose to be passed through sluices to remove and recover the gold.

The dedication plaque on the planter reads:

This planter dedicated to the people of
Colfax in honor of the 200th Birthday of
the United States of America
May 24th 1975
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Mayor - June Farrell
Vice Mayor - Maurice Muir
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Councilmen
Ben Hartske · Ray Rubio · Bob Weber
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Constructed by
The Colfax Dept. of Public Works

Address or General Location of Marker: North End of Downtown Colfax

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