Wisconsin
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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1910 | 6,324 | 1 | ||||||
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| 1960 | 6,672 | 10 | ||||||
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| 2000 | 10,711 | 78 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email from a former resident: “I used to live in Baraboo, Wisconsin, about 50 miles north and a little west of Madison. I knew a fellow who had just purchased a home not far from mine in an area of small homes put up after WWII. According to him, the subdivision originally had a covenant excluding blacks. I don’t know if he had actually seen the abstract, or was just repeating the neighborhood’s oral tradition…”