Indiana
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
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
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| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 1022 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | 1390 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | 1360 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1121 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 971 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 916 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 2010 | 789 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
- Private Bad Behavior
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
William E. Wilson writes in his book, On the Sunny Side of a One-Way Street:
“By the twentieth century, New Harmony had lost the egalitarian faith on which it was founded a hundred years before, and Aunt Minnie’s Lizzie was the only Negro permitted to live in the town. She had a room in the hotel and never went out on the street, day or night…. She must have had a great deal of what we used to call ‘inner resources.’ Certainly she was a finer person than the group of intolerant white people in the town who made it necessary for her to stay indoors.%u201D (p. 91)