Indiana
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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 456 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | 448 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1960 | 725 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 671 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1264 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | ||
| 2010 | 2055 | 1 | 12 | 5 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Rumors exist that the KKK donated land for the high school, and when the KKK craze hit, they became the Dragons! Today, a young student says that %u201CBlacks “don’t drive through.”
A New Palestine teacher writes:
%u201CHowever, the school system has found no documentation that states that the land for the school was donated by Klan members. The Dragon name was merely a coincidence. This was extensively researched the subject in the face of the persistent myth. I first heard the myth as a teacher, when some of my students mentioned it to me. Other teachers I knew had heard the myth, but no one had any evidence.%u201D