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Colfax is a city in Whitman County, Washington, United States. It is located in a valley at the confluence of the North and South forks of the Palouse River, in the midst of steeply rolling wheat-covered hills. The population was 2,844 at the 2000 census. It is the Whitman County seat and was named after Grant's Vice President, Schuyler Colfax.

Tourist Attractions
The Codger Pole is a chainsaw-carved monument by master carver Jonathan LaBenne. It is located on Main Street and commemorates a 1988 rematch, 50 years after the original 1938 game, between archrival football teams from Colfax High School and St. John. At 65 feet tall, it is the largest sculpture of its type in the world, and consists of portraits, carved into five upended red cedar logs, of the 51 players involved. The players are shown in old age but are wearing the football uniforms of the thirties.
The Perkins House, on Perkins Avenue, is a meticulously restored Victorian home built in 1886. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For more than one hundred years, it belonged to James Perkins, a leading pioneer citizen, and his descendents; it is now maintained by the Whitman County Historical Society. Behind the house is a log cabin, built in 1870, where Perkins lived when he first arrived in Colfax. This cabin is the oldest standing structure in Whitman County. The house is open for tours from May to September, on Thursdays and Saturdays.
Colfax Golf Course and Country Club is a nine-hole course beside the river on North Palouse River Road.
The Colfax Trail is a three-mile path converted from a disused railway line. It begins at a gravel quarry off Highway 26, just beyond the town's western limit, and follows the Palouse River westward, traversing cow pastures, pine woods, wetlands, and basalt cliffs.

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