Manchester

Basic Information

Type of Place

Suburb

Metro Area

Politics c. 1860?

Unions, Organized Labor?

Sundown Town Status

Sundown Town in the Past?

Possible

Was there an ordinance?

Don't Know

Sign?

Don’t Know

Year of Greatest Interest

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present

	Total	White	Black	Asian	Native	Hispanic	Other	BHshld
1860	1698
1870	1665
1880	1640
1890	1789
1900	2522	2508	11	3
1910	2673	2670	1				2
1920	2266
1930	2636	2.629	6
1940	2472	2463	9
1950	2868
1960	3932	3921	4				7
1970	5151	5128	14	6	1		2	6
1980	5424
1990	5286	5252	2	23	6		3
2000	5228
2010	5136
2020	5395

Method of Exclusion

• Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

• Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

• Black

Comments

Email 1/2008

I grew up in Manchester (born 1977). I remember hearing growing up that the town had only one registered black voter, an old lobsterman known as Capt Dusty. He also ran a bait & lobster shop on the waterfront. As I heard it, he came to town as a servant for an old rich lady who used to live out past where I grew up.

You might also want to add Jews to the excluded list. Manchester’s dominant population was wealthy Episcopalians from Boston, a population notorious for its anti-Semitism in previous years. There were also remarkably few Jews in town — the only Jewish family I can remember lived a couple of houses over, and the father was the founder of SAIL and Inc magazines.

We received an email warning that any black people found in Manchester after dark could be beaten and dropped the woods.