Tennessee
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Cumberlands
- 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?
- 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 | 1230 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | 2115 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1727 | 2 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 1862 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1839 | 13 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
According to a local professor, supposedly a sign at the entry to the town warned blacks not to let the sun set with them there. “Most of what I know of Jamestown has come via oral tradition. One of the interviews in the Folklife Collection at WSU, Ralph Maddux, white, of Granville, located in Jackson County, tape recorded on June 3, 1991, expresses what he actually saw.”