Indiana
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?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | 6,115 | |||||||
| 1910 | 8,716 | 74 | ||||||
| 1920 | 9076 | 55 | ||||||
| 1930 | 13,208 | 101 | ||||||
| 1940 | 12,514 | 76 | ||||||
| 1950 | 12,562 | 54 | ||||||
| 1960 | 13,024 | 47 | ||||||
| 1970 | 13,087 | 68 | ||||||
| 1980 | 14,410 | 64 | ||||||
| 1990 | 13,817 | 13,665 | 60 | 24 | ||||
| 2000 | 13,768 | 13,337 | 109 | 39 | ||||
| 2010 | 13,413 | 106 | 43 | |||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email 11/2007:
I had heard of sundown towns before (an older co-worker at Shoney’s, when I was in high school, told me about Bedford, IN having an actual sign at the edge of town regarding the policy back in the day) but I’ve never heard anyone claim them to be so prevalent as you do.
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10/2013
Loewen talked with members of the Bedford Historical Society who did not think that it had been a sundown town and did not remember a sign.