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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Mount Gilead

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?
Probable
Was there an ordinance?
Don't Know
Sign?
Don’t Know
Year of Greatest Interest
Still Sundown?
Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Black People

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930 1871 4
1940 2008 0
1950 2351 0
1960 2788 1
1970 2971 0 2
1980 2865 9
1990 2846 2827 4 5 10
2000 3290 35 4 8
2010 3660 12 3 7
2020

Method of Exclusion

  • Unknown

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

Mount Gilead was a stop on the Underground Rail Road, according to A. J. Baughman, ed., History of Morrow County, OH (NY: Lewis Pub., 1911), 126.

However, the town went sundown later.