Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Phone call 2/2006:
Ray Martin, grew up there, was a teenager in the 1950s. He was told that “years ago, the town statutes didn’t allow blacks to live there.” And there were no black residents then. There was a black community nearby, on top of a mountain two miles away, “Welsh Mountain.” He was always nervous when driving on the road that went through it, because of what he’d heard about them “dangerous” blacks living in the Welsh Mountains.
In an email to Ray Martin, Mary, another resident, reports:
Were blacks allowed to live in New Holland? No. Mom says that there was no sign to that affect but that it was an understanding. I never recall seeing a black person in NH in my growing up days or since. Mom doesn’t recall seeing them either. Maybe that’s why we always see them in big cities. Mom said that Mrs. Good was very paranoid about the Afro Americans and Mary Margaret was trying to convince her grandmother they were human, too.
In an email to Ray Martin, Grace, another resident, reports: There was a law or something in New Holland, wasn’t there, about no blacks being allowed to live in New Holland. I never heard of any signs, however.
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