Wisconsin
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?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | 2585 | 0 | ||||||
| 1910 | 3079 | 1 | ||||||
| 1920 | 2632 | 2 | ||||||
| 1930 | 3073 | 18 | ||||||
| 1940 | 3238 | 4 | ||||||
| 1950 | 4300 | 9 | ||||||
| 1960 | 4929 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 4890 | 1 | ||||||
| 1980 | 5607 | 15 | ||||||
| 1990 | 5979 | 11 | ||||||
| 2000 | 7148 | 64 | ||||||
| 2010 | 7651 | 92 | ||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Jewish
Comments
“Lake Geneva did not allow blacks to live in the town. I don’t know if it was a sundown town…
I even took a “field trip” to Lake Ivanhoe to see what it was like. Apparently Lake Ivanhoe was started as a vacation destination for African Americans from Chicago because they were not allowed to live in Lake Geneva. Lake Ivanhoe never developed but there is an integrated community there. It’s the only one that I know of outside of Kenosha.”
According to one individual, Lake Geneva wouldn’t serve Jews in certain restaurants. One couple who went there on their honeymoon in the 1950s said they even saw a sign that read, “No Jews Allowed.”