Oregon
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?
- Surely
- 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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| 1970 | 2246 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 4762 | 4 | 1 | |||||
| 2000 | 7263 | 6964 | 20 | 40 | 67 | 172 | ||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Asian
Comments
A Florence native write, %u201CI began to think about my own town. Our population has always consisted of White people. It wasn%u2019t until my senior year in high school (2000-2001) that we had a Hispanic student and an African American student in the school. We also had one of those big sirens in the middle of town. I was told it went off when there was a fire and it did when I was very young. I called my mom and she confirmed that yes, Florence was a sundown town and still existed to be one until sometime in the 1980’s (when I was already born). Wow! I couldn’t believe what I was hearing!. I was so shocked to find out that this kind of thing happened in my home town.”