Basic Information
- Type of Place
- CDP, Unincorporated Borough, or MCD
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Black Town or Township
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Unknown
Comments
A former Indiana resident writes,
%u201CI was born in 1938 in Allendale and spent my childhood through high school in Mt. Carmel. When I was a grade schooler I remember being told by someone in the community about an old law that blacks had to leave town by sundown. Supposedly there had been a knife fight (I think set in the 20’s) between a black man and a white man, and “for the sake of all concerned” blacks “used to” have to be out of town when it got dark. As a child I took that to mean that it was for the protection of both races.%u201D
The black population in the area lived mainly in an Indiana town called Lyle’s Station halfway between Mt. Carmel and Princeton, IN. The women in those families came to Mt. Carmel to work as domestics in oilmen’s homes, and the men went to Princeton to the Potter and Brumfield factory. None of us ever visited Lyle’s Station.%u201D
According to LylesStation.org: “Today, only a few homes remain in the community of Lyles Station but nearly half of the residents are descendants of the original black settlers. Along with the scattered houses, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a grain elevator, and the schoolhouse are all that stand as a physical reminder of the once-thriving settlement of Lyles Station, Indiana. However, the spirit of freedom and perseverance which made the town prosper is still very much alive in the hearts and minds of those individuals who are worked diligently to restore the Lyles Consolidated School building.”