South Carolina
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Strongly Democratic
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1876
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Ellenton is on Highway 125 in southern Aiken County
almost on the Barnwell County line. New Ellenton is
about ten miles north. The riot occurred September
16-19, 1876.
An Aiken resident writes:
The Ellenton riot was September 16-19, 1876, and
was part of the heated gubernatorial campaign that
would ultimately end Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Mark Smith wrote an interesting article on it in the
South Carolina Historical Magazine, April, 1994. He
sees it as more political, and less racial, than usually
assumed. Whether it resulted in a mass black exodus I
don’t know, but there were black families living in or
around Ellenton in 1950 when the town was sacrificed
to make room for the Savannah River Plant (nuclear
weapons factory).