Indiana
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?
- Yes, Strong Oral Tradition
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 631 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | 736 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1960 | 927 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 1004 | 0 | 3 | |||||
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| 2010 | 926 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
email 1/6/2008
A small town near where I grew up had a sign that read: “N—– don’t let the sun set on your back.” I don’t know that the sign still exists but it was on either a fence post or telephone pole as you approached the town from the south. The town is Roachdale, in Putnam County, Indiana.
I recall seeing the sign only once when I was about 8-12 years old (I’m now 66) so that would have made it about 1949-1953. That seems like a long time ago to remember something like this, but I’m sure there was a comment made at the time and it must have made a lasting impression. It could have been sometime later than this, but certainly in the 1950s.
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