West Virginia
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 Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1970 | 1286 | 29 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 1148 | 11 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1204 | 14 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Private Bad Behavior
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Testimony of a West Virginian:
“The rural town of Marlinton got its first black resident in the 1960s. The power company sent a newly-graduated black electrical engineer and his family to work at their regional office there. I heard that within a week someone had burned a cross on his lawn, and overnight the power company moved him out for his own protection.”