Colona

Henry County ’s first resident, a Dr. Baker, settled in what would become Colona in 1835. The village of Colona was laid out on July 25, 1855 by Marcus Warren, an early settler. The first building in the village was a warehouse built by J.A. Sawyer. When first established, Colona was a leading supplier of logs for the wood-burning locomotives of that early day. In the first merger of two equal partners into a new city in Illinois history, voters in the village of Colona and the city of Green Rock approved creating a new city of Colona, with just under 5,000 residents, in a 1995 referendum. The two communities neighbors in Henry County became one city in 1997. The Hennepin Canal runs through the northern portion Henry County emptys into the Rock River at Colona.

 

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The Merger of Colona and Greenrock

 

 

 

 

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