Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Detroit
- 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 Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 1990 | 8,444 | 8,290 | 35 | 9 | ||||
| 2000 | 10,582 | 10,185 | 63 | 24 | ||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email 3/2008, according to a long-term, nearby resident.
My next door neighbor who was about 11, I was 10. Her grandmother owned a “cottage” on Fenton Lake. I remember in the 1950’s being told that Fenton Michigan, a small town on Lake Fenton, in between Ann Arbor and Flint, where many fairly wealthy people had lake homes, was a sundown town.
Feb/2015 email from a longtime resident: “from my experience going to school in Fenton, and given that even at late as 2000, it wasn’t hugely uncommon to see rebel flags in the backs of trucks in Fenton, that I know quite a few racist people from the area, the limited number of black families in the schools system, and the rumors of a (past-ish) strong KKK presence in Cohactah, I certainly wouldn’t be surprised to find actual evidence of Fenton and many of the surrounding towns and cities having been Sundown Towns.”