Ohio
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- 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
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1890 | 3265 | 1 | ||||||
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| 1940 | 1475 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 742 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 607 | 0 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A resident of Logan, OH said: “I was told by my parents that Shawnee was a sundown town, and that a village less than 2 miles away from Shawnee, New Straitsville, had signs posted excluding blacks. It was always explained to me that towns such as Shawnee, New Straitsville, and Corning were coal mining towns. They needed labor and allowed blacks. The blacks were all required to live in Rendville, Ohio. The surounding towns all became sundown towns.”