Colon, Michigan - The Magic Capital Of The World

If you’re looking for a town that's named after a part of the body, and happens to be a haven for magicians, then you’re in luck- the town of your dreams is called Colon, Michigan.

Colon is one strange place- it's named after a punctuation mark, measures less than two square miles, and the magicians who aren't yet buried in the local graveyard rub elbows with the town's Amish population on a daily basis.

Colon became a magician's mecca when Harry Blackstone Sr. moved there back in 1926, and when Blackstone and Percy Abbott created the Abbott Magic Company, manufacturers of fine magic tricks, the town became irreversibly tied to the magical arts.

Each year the town plays host to magicians from all over the world during Abbott's Magic Get Together, an event that was first held way back in 1934 and is still popular with the magic crowd to this day.

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The Verge put together an interesting feature about "The Magic Capital Of The World", peeling back the veil of secrecy to reveal everyday life in a town full of magicians.

-Via Laughing Squid


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