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?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | 1702 | 17 | ||||||
| 1910 | 1391 | 11 | ||||||
| 1920 | 1410 | 1 | ||||||
| 1930 | 1371 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | ||||||||
| 1950 | 1065 | 2M | ||||||
| 1960 | ||||||||
| 1970 | 2027 | 0 | ||||||
| 1980 | 2434 | 0 | ||||||
| 1990 | 2605 | 2586 | 5 | |||||
| 2000 | 2700 | 2640 | 8 | |||||
| 2010 | 3447 | 29 | ||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Two female residents, interviewed together at their workplace in about 2012: “It is a known fact that black people weren’t welcome in Tolono,” said one. When (the older woman) went to high school, “there were no black people.” When (the younger one) attended, some time after the mid-1990s, “there were two African-Americans and three mixed.” The two African-Americans were continually harassed. The female African-American had to drop out, while the male graduated. The older woman added, “Some people come to the Tolono schools because they are all Caucasian.”
email 11/2007:
I don’t think today there is a problem as there are interracial couples in town now. Sundown towns should be limited to those that literally did run people out and I can only think of one nearby town with that reputation: Tolono. — according to a longterm resident of Homer who knew Tolono.