Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email November 2007:
I asked my grandma what she remembered about the sign that used to be at the Barry County line. She confirmed that there was a sign warning black people to be out of the county by sundown. I asked her when it was taken down, and she couldn’t remember. I asked her if it was up when she got married, and she said no. She was married at age 18 in 1949, so it was taken down before then. My grandfather, who passed away 3 years ago, knew more about it than my grandmother. She did say there was also a sign at Cassville, the county seat of Barry County.
When my stepfather heard me telling about your talk , he told me that the train station in Galena, MO (Stone County, just east of Barry County) used to have a sign warning blacks out of town. He got his information from his father, who passed away about 10 years ago. So unfortunately, most of my sources of information are no longer available.
I wish I had more detail than this to give you, but my grandma didn’t really remember much else. As a kid she lived in rural Barry County in a predominantly Irish community at Mineral Springs outside of Cassville.
I enjoyed your talk at the conference and look forward to reading your book.