New Jersey
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Other
- 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
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 2000 | 2263 | 2213 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 52 | ||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Seaside Park is one of New Jersey’s many boroughs, a type of municipality unique to the state.
According to a story on urbanhiker.net, prior to 1968 “Nigger Sam” was the only black person in town, the shoeshine “boy,” and he didn’t sleep in town.