Washington
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?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
Census Information
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| 2020 | 27971 | 1196 | 1191 | 1614 | 8290 | 6580 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Native American
Comments
“I remember being down town late one afternoon,
waiting for my dad at the barbershop when the siren
went off. I asked my mom what it was and she said at
6 o’clock all the Indians and negros had to be out of
town. ‘They had to ride away into the sunset.’ I
thought like in the movies. I asked if we had to go and
she said no.
“When I started first grade a little Indian boy, John,
came to school for a few days. The teacher sat him
beside me. I tried to make friends with him, but he did
not talk much and I was always getting in trouble for
talking. He said he was living in a camp beyond where
we lived at the edge of town.”
-former Walla Walla resident, born 1946