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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1930 | 1745 | 1703 | 41 | |||||
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| 1970 | 3896 | 3886 | 10 | |||||
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| 2010 | 2993 | 2922 | 8 | |||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
I grew up in Spring Lake, New Jersey from 1954 on. Throughout the years there, there was always one black family, the Middletons. They lived on “Sixth Avenue” in a town which only recognized First through Fifth Avenues. It was well known that blacks were not welcome in Spring Lake, but that there was one token family. I know a number of stories regarding the treatment and opinions of black people in Spring Lake. I alos had in the years back then noted a population survey for New Jersey. It said that, in whatever year it was shown, that the actual number of black people in Spring Lake was 5. The projected number of black people for a year I believe was five years later, was 4. I thought about how the Middletons were to have a family member die or move out of town. My mother being Italian, we were not really welcome either in the town some called the Irish Riviera. That is another side of Spring Lake. By the way, not much has changed to this day in Spring Lake.