Editing Colon, Nebraska (section)

==History==
First established in 1879, Colon removed to its current site in 1886 when the railroad was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/saunders/colon/ | title=Colon, Saunders County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=August 23, 2014}}</ref> The town was named after [[Colon, Michigan]], by the first postmaster, who was a native of that state.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA58|year=1908|page=58}}</ref><ref>Fitzpatrick, Lilian Linder (1925).  [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc "Nebraska Place-Names".]  University of Nebraska Department of English.  Retrieved September 27, 2011.</ref> Colon was incorporated as a village in 1894.<ref>{{cite book|last=Perky|first=Charles|title=Past and Present of Saunders County, Nebraska: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YwA1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA129|year=1915|publisher=S.J. Clarke publishing Company|page=129}}</ref>