Kentucky
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Cumberlands
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 1990 | 695 | 2 | ||||||
| 2000 | 637 | 0 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Police or Other Official Action
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Legend has it that blacks were not even allowed in Burnside as workers. This is based upon the oral record contained in the Folklife Collection WKU: William Hiram Parrish, Burkesville, Cumberland County, KY; tape recorded interview, December 23, 1975; and Walter Maxey, Burkesville, Kentucky; tape recorded interview, December 29, 1975.
One woman recalls that her grandfather was town marshall and would not allow blacks after dark. c. 1900-1910.