Colony is a town in Cullman County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 268, down from 385 in 2000. Colony is a historically African-American town. In its to come days it was a wharf for African Americans in the Deep South. It incorporated in 1981.

Colony is located in southern Cullman County at 33°56′42″N 86°53′58″W / 33.94500°N 86.89944°W / 33.94500; -86.89944 (33.945011, -86.899465), about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River. The town is located along Alabama State Route 91, approximately one mile west of Interstate 65.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.3 square miles (5.9 km), of which 0.008 square miles (0.02 km²), or 0.40%, is water.

Colony most likely was originally usual soon after the emancipation of slaves after the Civil War, during Reconstruction. It is believed that the native settlers of the town were most likely freed slaves from Baltimore, Alabama. It is the abandoned African American community in Cullman County, which was founded in 1873, and was considered a secure haven for Blacks at a time when extra cities in imitation of white majorities were considered risky for Blacks, and referred to as ‘sundown’ cities because after sundown Blacks were in hardship there. Those that originally fixed there were definite land as reward for inborn slaves, with exceeding 8,000 acres eventually cultivated as farm land.