West Virginia
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1940
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 20,491 | 60 | ||||||
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| 1940 | 22,886 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 22,108 | 41 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email interview with resident of a nearby town: “Two of our close friends who are black told me that the sundown rule was important in Lincoln County, and they would never go there with me, daylight or not.”
A public employee in Lincoln County said that there was an African American employee of the water company who was run out of town. She also said that there was a racial incident not too long ago involving a black man and a white woman living together. Some of the community members threatened to burn down the house, and the couple left town.