Editing Colton, Washington (section)

==History==

Colton was first settled in 1879 by J.A. Cole,<ref name=atbocel>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0dctAAAAIBAJ&sjid=v9AFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2157%2C3490715 |work=Idahonian |location=(Moscow) |last=Hyde |first=Susan M. |title=A town built on celebration |date=June 3, 1989 |page=1B}}</ref> and was founded{{clarify|date=March 2024}} in 1882 by J.B. Stanley.<ref name=majors>{{Cite book| last = Majors | first = Harry M. | title = Exploring Washington | publisher = Van Winkle Publishing Co | year = 1975 | page = 143 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoWrPQAACAAJ| isbn = 978-0-918664-00-6}}</ref> Colton was incorporated in 1890; however, the incorporation documents were not recorded until 1893.

Plans for the formation of Colton were made in 1879. Several residents of the town of Uniontown, which was settled a few years earlier, had grown dissatisfied with the proprietor of that town. In June 1879, the town of Colton was surveyed and platted on the 480-acre farm of Gregor Kosher. That month L.J. Wolford moved his hotel to Colton and Chris Adamson moved his blacksmith shop to the new town. Dr. Cole erected the first new building on the corner of Steptoe and Broadway (now Main Street); J.B. Standley moved his small supply of merchandise into the new building. The town took its name from the first three letters of Cole, and the last three from Clinton, a son of Mr. Wolford, whose family was the first to live in Colton.

On October 10, 1879, John Standley was appointed postmaster and opened a post office in his own store. During the summer of 1880, a petition was granted by the county government at Asotin to separate Colton from the school district of Uniontown. The first school was opened in the Cole Building. Mrs. Viola Flowers was the first teacher.

Colton was a filming location for country artist [[Kenny Chesney]] in his 1995 hit song ''[[Me and You (Kenny Chesney song)|Me and You]]''.