West Virginia
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Yes, Written Evidence
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1936
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1940 | 0 | |||||||
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| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 1035 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 1256 | 1254 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| 2000 | 1345 | 1339 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 2010 | 1518 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Police or Other Official Action
- Reputation
- Other
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- English
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
NY Times story, “From New Deal to New Hard Times, Eleanor Endures,” 12/24/2009, notes the New Deal origin of Eleanor and that it was “white only,” as were most FDR towns.