Talk:Colon, Michigan
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Michigan Place Names by Walter Romig, L.H.D. (Wayne State University Press, 1988), 673 pages --states a completely different reason for the name of the village. It states that the river between the two lakes looked like a colon. I think the other narrative was an early attempt to white wash the real reason the name was used and elevate it out of the G.I. tract.108.84.132.7 (talk) 13:00, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
- The information that was in the article was sourced to a publication that was about a town in Nebraska. It's been removed. I don't have access to Romig, so please replace it and add an inline citation to Romig. The bibliographic info in already there as a general reference. John from Idegon (talk) 14:24, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Here is a link to the entry for Colon, Michigan, in Romig's Michigan Place Names book indicating that the postmaster opened a dictionary and randomly selected a word, which happened to be colon and the rationale regarding the shape of the lake: https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-FPXEGRo-YC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA127#v=onepage&q&f=false — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.181.195.31 (talk) 13:31, 14 February 2018 (UTC)