Texas
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- County
- 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?
- Don't Know
- Sign?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | 17 | |||||||
| 1880 | 24 | |||||||
| 1890 | 9313 | 13 | ||||||
| 1900 | 13520 | 7 | ||||||
| 1910 | ||||||||
| 1920 | 14676 | 10 | ||||||
| 1930 | 13523 | 0 | ||||||
| 1940 | 13303 | 13303 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 1950 | 10660 | 1 | ||||||
| 1960 | 8488 | 2 | ||||||
| 1970 | 7189 | 7181 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 0 | |
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | ||||||||
| 2000 | 8299 | 7720 | 12 | 16 | 36 | 610 | 445 | 1 |
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
When Hamilton County expelled its black
population, two blacks were allowed to remain. “Very
few Negroes have ever lived in Hamilton county, hence
those who did live here were known by everyone. This
was especially true with ‘Uncle Alec’ and his sister,
‘Aunt Mourn.’ They were Gentry Negroes, and former
slaves of Capt. F. B. Gentry, who fought at San Jacinto
and is buried in the Graves-Gentry Cemetery in
Hamilton…’Uncle Alec’ and ‘Aunt Mourn’ lived to a ripe
old age in their own little log cabin at Gentry’s Mill.”
A professor of social studies education
saw sundown sign there in 1985.
%u2014conversation, 3/2010