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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1950 | 2935 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 3586 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 3992 | 2 | ||||||
| 1980 | 4605 | 6 | ||||||
| 1990 | 5337 | 5 | ||||||
| 2000 | 7305 | 34 | ||||||
| 2010 | 10084 | 168 | ||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
according to Cynthia Stokes Brown’s father. I emailed her for details on April 15, 2002.
Also, sundown, “notorious,” according to Barbara Trader, February 21, 2005, now of DC, who lived in tiny East Troy. Black entertainers had to be put up elsewhere in the ’50s and ’60s. There is a small black community near Lake Geneva, where blacks lived who worked there. btrader@easterseals.com
Mar 09 2005 “Barbara Trader”
According to a current resident, “An old-timer who lives across the street from me once mentioned something about how blacks weren’t allowed out after dark. Every once in a while a black student or person would show up but they never lasted very long.”
Email from a former resident: “My father said he remembers when he was in high school (he graduated in 1941) that there was a sign on Hwy 67 on the south side of town that said ‘N****, don’t let the sund go down on you in this town.'”