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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Corry

Pennsylvania

Basic Information

Type of Place
Independent City or Town
Metro Area
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

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910 5,369 15
1920
1930
1940 6,935 9
1950
1960 7,744 1
1970
1980
1990 7,216 10
2000
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

An African American women familiar with the history of Corry recounts: It was incorporated around 1865. Blacks owned lots of property in Ward 1. The electrical plant was built on land originally donated by a black man. [Later Corry’s black population went to about zero.] Now there are all kinds of rumors about the departure of blacks, such as that a fire chased black people out. There is said to be a black hide that is passed around, of the last black person killed there. There may have been a lynching in a park in Corry.