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Nebraska County Countdown: #43 Colfax County

We just whoooshed past Colfax County.

I cannot, for the life of me, understand why I signed up to do this bit about Colfax County. I do not have a good story to tell. I think my brother and sister-in law once lived in Clarkson or Howells, which are both in Colfax County – the only thing I remember about that is they could not drink the tap water because of high nitrate content.

There were 10,515 people in Colfax county as of the 2010 census, and the county seat is Schuyler. Both the county and the county seat were named after Vice President Schulyer Colfax, who was VP under Ulysses S. Grant. I’ll be you can guess when the county was established, right?

Yes, just after the Civil War. Colfax County came together in 1869, when they were naming everything after everybody involved in the Civil War. Schuyler Colfax was apparently very anti-slavery and was one of the founders of the Republican party. After reading a little bit about him on Wikipedia, it seems that the Republican party came about because of its anti-slavery platform. I did not know this, or I forgot, or I don’t care all that much. I like history, but politics… I don’t know if I care all that much about the history of politics.

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