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?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Don’t Know
Census Information
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| 1960 | 6209 | 1 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 5713 | 2 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Police or Other Official Action
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
According to a historian at the local historical society, she has never heard, seen, or read anything definite about sundown practices in Nazareth. There does, however, seem to be a persistent urban legend that black people were not allowed to buy homes in Nazareth until recently because of Moravian Church dictate.
She added that on the surface, the urban legend has no truth to it, however, twentieth-century Moravians have never dictated who can live in a community in so many words. But, like many stories, there may be a kernel of truth somewhere that was misunderstood. From 1740 until 1857, Nazareth was a closed Moravian community, meaning that only members of the church could live here, including blacks and Native Americans.
She concluded by noting that the collection at the historical society contains nothing pertinent to this topic.