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?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 2,587 | 4 | ||||||
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| 1940 | 4315 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 3,833 | 20 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email from a former resident: “Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania is not on your list, but I went to elementary school there and I can assure you it was a sundown town. Check with Elizabethtown College. They could not admit their first African American students until the late 1960’s because of Elizabethtown’s ordinance prohibiting ‘negroes’ from spending the night in the town.”
Another email from the wife of a former resident: “Went to college at Elizabethtown College right after WWII. Barracks-like housing, put up quickly, after the war, to house returning GIs. One end of the long barracks was across the city line, so black students had to live in that end of the barracks. A Gospel quartet performed at the college and had to be put up for the night by a farmer in the rural.”