Indiana
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?
- Surely
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 1970 | 1076 | 0 | 1 | |||||
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| 2000 | 906 | 0 | ||||||
| 2010 | 1229 | 5 | 4 | 8 | ||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
A World War II veteran from Gas City heard that Sweetser and Swayzee were sundown towns, wheras Weaver was a former black community just south of Marion dating to just after the Civil War. Meanwhile, he thinks that Mexicans have an easier time moving into Swayzee and working for canning factories and vegetable farms that supply them. He says, “They had ’em in camps, but as they moved away from their master, you might say, some of them would go back to Mexico, but you had a few stragglers who stayed in the towns.” Specifically Swayzee.