Colon, North Carolina

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| settlement_type = Unincorporated community

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| subdivision_name2 = Lee

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Colon is an unincorporated community in Lee County, North Carolina, United States. It was also known as Buckner.

Coal from the Egypt Mine used to be delivered to the Seaboard Railroad station here.[http://www.pwrr.org/nstation/colon.html Colon], Piedmont and Western Railroad Club, Retrieved 27 June 2022 Gas-fired brick was also made here.Zucchino, David (1 February 2015). [https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nc-coal-ash-20150201-story.html North Carolina community fights Duke Energy plan to dump toxic coal ash], Los Angeles Times A post office was established as "Bucker" in 1891 and was renamed "Colon" in 1892.[https://books.google.com/books?id=KFvqCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA122 The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed], p. 122 (2010)