Ohio
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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- 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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| 1940 | 2239 | 0 | ||||||
| 1950 | ||||||||
| 1960 | 3101 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970 | 2979 | 4 | ||||||
| 1980 | ||||||||
| 1990 | 2987 | 31 | 7 | |||||
| 2000 | 3326 | |||||||
| 2010 | 3025 | 2914 | 17 | 6 | 8 | |||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Violent Expulsion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email excerpt:
Millersburg, Ohio was indeed a sundown town. I heard it from a reliable source, descendant of KKK. They did have the signs at all roads in and out of town. There are “rumors” of a couple of lynchings back then, too.
from: http://www.ohiogenealogyexpress.com/holmes/holmesco_news.htm