Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Don’t Know
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | 9,413 | 6 | ||||||
| 1870 | 16 | |||||||
| 1880 | 23 | |||||||
| 1890 | 16,746 | 21 | ||||||
| 1900 | 17,453 | 26 | ||||||
| 1910 | 16,879 | 6 | ||||||
| 1920 | 16,478 | 15 | ||||||
| 1930 | 15,038 | 34 | ||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | 16,565 | 9 | ||||||
| 1960 | 16,957 | 39 | ||||||
| 1970 | ||||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 18,555 | 151 | ||||||
| 2000 | 20,551 | 156 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
%u201CA Black History of Fulton County%u201D was
published in The Rochester Sentinel.
See also: Shirley Willard, “Blacks History in Fulton
County Began in 1832,” Rochester: Fulton County
Historical Society, n.d., unpaginated.
A black man who fought in the Civil War lived in
Rochester, and other former soldiers provided his
funeral and headstone in 1905. At the time there were
only three families of blacks living in Rochester, and
another single black man.
The KKK membership in Fulton County was
significant.
Blacks visiting Rochester were not allowed in
hotels or restaurants, including the famed Harlem
Globe Trotters in 1945.
An Indiana resident remembered Rochester as a
sundown town, and that even in the 1980s, blacks
lived outside the city limits.
It is not clear whether Rochester was sundown;
perhaps not quite.