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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 1990 | 3,083 | 3,018 | 1 | 33 | 0 | |||
| 2000 | 3,070 | 2,835 | 2 | 175 | 0 | |||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Native American
Comments
According to a former resident: “While there were no blacks in western Minnesota, and probably few today, the rampant separtism enforced on the Native Americans was blatant and was apparently both de facto and de jure. In the 1950s that I witnessed (and probably long before and long after), no business, such as barber shops, that allowed Indians’ patronage had white customers. The separatism was evident in that any business that allowed Indians to patronize the facility was then shunned by whites. One example was when a new barber bought the tiny house next to my grandparents’ place, and he, desperate for new business, cut the Indians’ hair, so he had no white customers after that. The local customs were never posted but any sightings of Indians in the town were rare and during daylight only.”