Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Strongly Democratic
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1910
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | 155 | |||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | 74 | |||||||
| 1900 | 71 | |||||||
| 1910 | 15 | |||||||
| 1920 | 0 | |||||||
| 1930 | 0 | |||||||
| 1940 | 0 | |||||||
| 1950 | 3 | |||||||
| 1960 | 1 | |||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 9,319 | 12 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Georgia Resident:
“I attended Rabun Gap Nacoochee School and we had a
black basketball player on our team and threats were
made against him when we played in Towns County.
That was the first time I heard that black people
shouldn’t be in Towns County after dark. This would
have been about 1972 or 1973. There were rumors of
threats. Yes, I was at the game. Nothing happened.
Our team trounced them! It was Towns County HS. To
my knowledge nothing was done about the threats.”
Another Georgia Resident:
“When I hiked the Appalachian Trail a few years ago a
fellow hiker from Seattle was in the post office in
Hiawassee, GA. The hiker commented to the person
there that this was their first time in the south and
that they were surprised there were no black people
around. To paraphrase the mail serviceperson’s
response ‘this is a white county, black people don’t
come here especially at night’. Hiawasee is county seat
of Town County. Many counties show declines in black
population, 1880 to 1890. Of these, I personally know
that for years, I heard that black people had better not
be caught in Towns County after dark.”