California
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?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 2322 | 6 | ||||||
| 1940 | 3064 | 5 | ||||||
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| 1960 | 4439 | 0 | ||||||
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| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Asian
Comments
In 1853, white vigilantes attacked a destroyed a black
settlement in Placerville.
Arsonists burned Placerville’s Chinatown in January of
1886.
8/2007
One person stated that “Placerville, CA isn’t still a “sundown town”, but Cameron Park/Shingle Springs (they share a zip code, 95682, and are about 10 miles west of Placerville) still were in the mid-late 1990s when I lived there.”