Washington
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?
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
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Group(s) Excluded
Comments
email 2/2008
Said to have had billboard with sundown message. Rumor said the sun would never set on a black in Shelton.
My father hired a black woman, had to advise her, few blacks in town, 1950s.
Randy: Black is on library board in 1981.
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Submitted by email on 8/16/2007
When I worked in Shelton, during the early eighties, a co-worker, who was a native of the town, told me that there was a sign at the entrance to town that suggested that African-Americans should drive on past or head back to where they’d come from. I don’t know if that was true, but it was true for my co-worker.