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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 1959 | 36 | ||||||
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| 1950 | 2050 | 16 | ||||||
| 1960 | 2169 | 2 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 1906 | 2 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1763 | 6 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email 11/2007:
I heard this story when I was growing
up in Marion, Kansas in the 1940s and 1950s. It seems that Mrs. Matlock, a
teacher of elocution who had been around since the early years of the town’s settlement, had a daughter with musical talent and aspirations. Mrs. Matlock sent her off to a conservatory for further training in music. It was a Catholic institution. When the local Klavern or whatever learned of this they burned a cross on her lawn. It was probably the bravest act the KKK
ever performed, because Mrs. M. (not a Catholic, by the way) was one formidable lady. I wouldn’t step on her lawn, much less burn a cross on it,
even if surrounded by hooded men. I learned this story from a local
Catholic. He and other Catholics in the area would gladly tell you who had
been members of the Klan in the 1920s.