Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- 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
Comments
Email Message 1/9/08: When I worked at Natural Bridge State Park in summer 1994, a woman from Stanton who worked at the park told me that according to her great-uncle, around the turn of the century, there had been a small African American community at Pompeii, between Stanton and Clay City (where Pompeii Road is now). Some white men were playing cards with one or more of the African American men from Pompeii, and an argument broke out that ended with one of the white men shot by an African American man. Supposedly the dead man’s brother came to town the next day and shot several people (any black person he saw, according to this story), and the entire community moved away. When I was there in 1994, there was one very old African American couple who still lived in Pompeii. The 1890 census shows 390 black residents of Powell County; 375 in 1900; 337 in 1910; 111 in 1920; 203 in 1930. If this did happen, the census figures would suggest it might have most likely been in the 1910s.