One Michigan Man’s Mission To Claim Colon For His Town

BJ Mallen, a resident of Colon, Michigan, is actively trying to rename two other Colons in the United States, so Michigan is the only state with a Colon.

A press release has been delivered stating he has started the Envoy of the One True Colon at onlyonecolon.com, and he says that multiple colons create a mess, and that one Colon keeps the country regular.

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In separate letters sent to both Colon, North Carolina, and Colon, Nebraska, he details why they should consider changing the name of their communities:

Colon, Nebraska (an incorporated village in Saunders County) is formally invited to adopt the honorary designation "Semi-Colon, NE" (;), in recognition of its shared name, population, and distinguished position within the national punctuation landscape.

Your community is beautiful, peaceful, and likely able to hold its entire population in a single church basement. And while we admire your resilience and charm, we must also acknowledge the numeric reality: Colon, Nebraska, is considerably smaller than Colon, Michigan. Therefore, with respect and affection, we humbly invite you to assume the honorary title: “Semi-Colon, Nebraska.”

Colon, North Carolina (an unincorporated community in Lee County) is invited to assume the honorary designation "Pilcrow, NC" (¶), a thoughtful homage to the paragraph marker’s historic prominence and modern rarity, as he urged them in his letter:

Because your community remains historically recognized yet municipally integrated into the greater Sanford area, I wish to honor that unique position with a symbol of equal nuance. The Pilcrow (¶), once used to mark the beginning of a new paragraph, now rarely appears, much like the independent designation of Colon, NC.