Schuyler Colfax - Legacy

Legacy

Towns named "Colfax" after him exist in the U.S. states of California, North Carolina, Illinois, Washington, Indiana, Iowa, and Louisiana. Schuyler, Nebraska, named after Colfax, is the county seat of Colfax County, Nebraska. The now ghost town of Colfax, Colorado, was named after him. Colfax County, New Mexico, is named after him as well. Colfax, California boasts a bronze statue of Colfax, next to the tracks at the AMTRAK station.

The main east-west street traversing Aurora, Denver and Lakewood, Colorado, and abutting the Colorado State Capitol is named "Colfax Avenue" in the politician's honor. There is another Colfax Avenue in South Bend, Indiana (a few miles east of his New Carlisle home and adjacent to his burial site); Colfax Place in the Highland Square neighborhood in Akron, Ohio, in Grant City, Staten Island; in Minneapolis, Minnesota; in Roselle Park, New Jersey; and a Colfax Street on Chicago's North Side. There is a Colfax Street leading up Mt. Colfax in Springdale, Pennsylvania, by the Post Office and train station in Palatine, Illinois and a Colfax Avenue in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where the school fight song contains the phrase "of that Colfax school" because the high school is located on Colfax. There is also a Colfax Street in Jamestown, New York. There is also a Colfax Avenue in Concord, California.

There is a Colfax elementary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a middle school in Wayne, New Jersey. Also in Wayne is the Schuyler-Colfax House, built by antecedents.

His family now resides in Northern New Jersey, but they no longer own the Colfax museum. They are currently trying to purchase the museum and all of its contents.