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?
- Probable
- Was there an ordinance?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- 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 | |
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| 1980 | 2,783 | 5 | ||||||
| 1990 | 3,304 | 3,244 | 19 | 8 | ||||
| 2000 | 9,293 | 8,698 | 93 | 33 | ||||
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Method of Exclusion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email message 1/11/08
Before I began attending college, I had heard stories that there used to be a law on the books that barred black people from being in Westfield after dark. I was also told a story by a local resident in the village. He said that when he was a small boy in the early 1960’s, a black family had moved to our town and was met with swift racial aggression in the form of cross burnings, which the whole town came out to witness, and or, participate in. The family moved out the next morning, end of story.
According to a resident of Indiana, “Westfield, Indiana, actually has a very rich African American history. There was a black, farming community nearby in the 1800’s (Indiana had several, including Lyles Station, near Princeton) and homes in Westfield were known to be UGRR stations.”