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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People
Census Information
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| 2000 | 591 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | |||
| 2010 | 776 | 26 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Threat of Violence
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
“In spite of the fact that there was a heavy concentration of Negroes in Clark County, none were allowed within the corporation limits of the little town of Utica, about ten miles up the Ohio River from Jeffersonville. An excursion boat which attempted to make a brief landing there was said to have been driven off because there were a few colored persons on board. A prominent visitor to the place had difficulty securing permission to bring his colored carriage driver into the town.%u201D See Emma Lou Thornbrough, _The Negro in Indiana_ (Indianapolis: IN Historical Bureau, 1957), 226.
An Indiana resident%u2019s grandmother grew up in Utica and remembered signs posted at each end of the town to tell blacks to leave by sundown.