The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusColona is a city in Henry County, Illinois, along the Green River. It is part of the Quad Cities metropolitan area. The population was 5,045 at the 2020 Census. The City of Colona was created in 1997 by the merger of the former City of Green Rock and the former Village of Colona. It was the first community in Illinois to merge by popular vote.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 5,099 people in 2010, 5,045 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1965.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Colona yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Colona’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Colona’s history is told.
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2000
Nothing in Colona is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Colona has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Black's Store in Hampton, 7.2 miles away.
Colona and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.