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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- 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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| 1940 | 1414 | 1414 | 0 | 0 | ||||
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| 1970 | 1693 | 1674 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 1658 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1802 | 1568 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 332 | 221 | 1 |
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email 11/27/2007:
The person who told me the story that Golthwaite was a sundown town was a African-American student taking classes in the Recreation Program (HPER Department) at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, TX, I believe in 1988/89. This African-American student about age 20 or so told me he had a tire go flat as he was driving through Goldthwaite on his return home (I believe going to Brownwood), but he just kept on going on the flat tire because he was told they use to have a sign up at the City Limit of Goldthwaite that said something like “No Blacks after Sundown”, and he was fearful to stop because of the towns reputation even though there was no sign now.
The descendant of a former resident recalls hearing there was a sign that was removed by the 1960s.