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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Fort Recovery

Ohio

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

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
1920
1930
1940
1950 1231 0
1960 1336 0
1970
1980
1990 1313 0
2000 1,273 1,257 1 0
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

Fort Recovery was a sundown town, according to a local resident who has worked at various history museums in Cincinnati. “City officials said it was never on the books. However, they said, everybody understood that blacks were not to live in Fort Recovery. Blacks had to stay with us outside the city when they brought plants to us from far away.”

According to a resident of Ohio, “I grew up around Fort Recovery and it was common knowledge that it was a sundown town even into the 1960’s.”