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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Del Norte County

California

Basic Information

Type of Place
County
Metro Area
Politics c. 1860?
Unions, Organized Labor?

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?
Surely Not

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870 2022 217
1880 2584 434
1890 2592 48 19
1900 2408 1 24
1910 2417 1 338
1920 2759 3 524
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000 27507 21693 1184 637 1770 3829 1079
2010
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Violent Expulsion

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Asian

Comments

Numerous towns in Del Norte county expelled
their Chinese populations in the early and mid 1880s.
“Orientals for some years afterward were not seen in
Del Norte County, except in the case of Raleigh Scott
of Smith River who retained his Chinese cook, Old
Dock, until he died.”