Basic Information
- Type of Place
- CDP, Unincorporated Borough, or MCD
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Don’t Know
- Unions, Organized Labor?
- Don’t Know
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- 1904
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1900 | 1,870 | 1,744 | 96 | 17 | ||||
| 1910 | 869 | 849 | 20 | 4 | ||||
| 1920 | ||||||||
| 1930 | 326 | 325 | 1 | 0 | ||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Petersburg, KY is a very small town, too small even to be in the census. According to Wikipedia, there are approximately 400-600 people living in Petersburg today.
According to a woman who was raised in Lawrenceburg, Indiana: “One of my great grandparents family came from Petersburg, KY across the Ohio river from Lawrenceburg. My great great grandfather shows up on the census’s from the late 1800’s/early 1900’s with his wife and family in Petersburg. I contacted the genealogy/local history dept for Boone County to enquire if they had any more info about black families in Boone County or Petersburg, KY. The librarian told me she believed there was a 1904 %u201Cburn out%u201D in Petersburg, KY where all the black families homes were burned down and they were told to get out. Petersburg, KY currently only has a few hundred people in the town, none are black.”