Lafayette, Colorado
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The City of Lafayette is a home rule municipality located in southeastern Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 30,411 at the 2020 United States census.
View across Waneka Lake from the east shore in Lafayette, Colorado, with autumn foliage and the snowcapped Front Range on the horizon.
Mary E. Miller, Representative Women of Colorado, 1914
Simpson Street in Lafayette, Colorado, looking east on a snowy winter day, showing historic commercial buildings on the right and newer townhomes on the left.
Panoramic view across Waneka Lake from the east shore trail in Lafayette, Colorado, showing autumn foliage and the distant Front Range.
Mary E. Miller settled in the Territory of Colorado in 1863 with her husband, Lafayette Miller. After her husband died, she founded the town of Lafayette, Colorado, named for her husband. Miller was c
Lafayette, Colorado
…square miles (24 km2), of which 9.3 square miles (24 km2) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km2), or 1.50%, is water. Lafayette was founded in 1888 by Mary E. Miller (née Foote). She filed the original Town of Lafayette plat in January 1888 and sold the first residential lot – Lot 6, Block G, Town of Lafayette – in March 1888…
Horse team on the Overland Trail
Poster for John Robinson Circus, 1900, Library of Congress
Miller House, 409 East Cleveland Street in Lafayette, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.