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?
- Unlikely
- Was there an ordinance?
- No
- Sign?
- No
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Zoning
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
- Asian
- Native American
- Hispanic
- Jewish
- Asian Indian
Comments
“Developers who sold suburban building lots [in the
Wilmington area] frequently encumbered those small
parcels of land with restrictions by including
[restrictive] covenants in the deeds. Of the seventy
subdivisions that I sampled in my research, 83 percent
had one or more restrictive covenants. The real estate
interests cited the restrictions when they marketed the
land, for example, advertising in that restrictions
‘insure a harmonizing effect’ and that they would ‘keep
up the value of your holdings in this tract.’…
“Undoubtedly the most important deed restrictions
were those that banned sales to persons of particular
races. As early as 1917, Wilmington’s suburban
developers included in their deeds prohibitions
against sales to non Caucasian buyers. Given the
understanding of ‘Caucasian’ at the time, this
effectively banned all buyers except people of
northern and western European origin. At least two
developments limited sales to ‘members of the Aryan
branch of the Caucasian race.'”
-PhD dissertation on suburbanization