Hi, I was wondering if there are any history books on Colfax? I visited the McClean County, Historical Society. They had one small pamphlet, on the history of the coal mine. My Great Grandfather, John Wesley Garner, owned the Hotel in Colfax, in the late 1880s-1890s. It was first called the Garner Hotel, and then he built a new one, called the Hotel DeGrande. After he died, in 1893, it was renamed, The Little Wonder, and run by a family named Tolbert. John Wesley Garner, was the school director, and the Justice of the Peace, at the time of his death. Susan Mays