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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Coldwater

Ohio

Basic Information

Type of Place
Independent City or Town
Metro Area
Politics c. 1860?
Don’t Know
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
Still Sundown?
Probably

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940 2019 6
1950
1960 2766 0
1970 3533 0 4
1980 4407 0
1990 4313 0
2000 4464 3
2010 4427 4 2 4
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • German Catholic

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

A student who grew up in Coldwater affirmed it was all-white, but didn’t know if it was sundown. Nearby was a black community [perhaps mixed, with blacks in it], Carthagena, named after Carthage, dated to before Civil War, which then became the site of some sort of [white] Catholic seminary. Coldwater and the area are heavily German Catholic. The blacks vanished slowly from Carthagena.