North Carolina Gazetteer browse

Place	Description
Colon	community in N Lee County. Coal from Egypt mine formerly delivered to the Seaboard Railroad there; later the center of a large gas-fired brick industry. Post office est. in 1891 as Buckner; changed to Colon in 1892.
Colonial Assembly	See General Assembly.
Colson's Mill	See Coulson Ordinary.
Colt Creek	rises in SE Henderson County and flows NE into Polk County, where it enters Pacolet River.
Columbia	See Ramseur.
Columbia	town and county seat in N Tyrrell County on Scuppernong River. Alt. 10. Originated as a trading post, Shallop's Landing; inc. 1793 as Elizabeth Town. Name changed to Columbia in 1801. Became county seat in 1802. Name is poetic appellation for the United States. Produces lumber.
Columbia Township	N central Tyrrell County.
Columbia Township	E central Randolph County.
Columbia Township	NE Pender County.
Columbus	town authorized to be est. on the lands of Jesse Nixon, NE Randolph County, in 1812. Apparently the town was never laid out. A post office at the proposed site on Sandy Creek in 1828 was called Nixon's.