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?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | ||||||||
| 1870 | ||||||||
| 1880 | ||||||||
| 1890 | ||||||||
| 1900 | ||||||||
| 1910 | 7214 | 14 | ||||||
| 1920 | 7374 | 5 | ||||||
| 1930 | 7674 | 1 | ||||||
| 1940 | 8685 | 10 | ||||||
| 1950 | 9952 | 3 | ||||||
| 1960 | 12650 | 3 | ||||||
| 1970 | 13123 | 1 | ||||||
| 1980 | 12424 | 8 | ||||||
| 1990 | 11785 | 11 | ||||||
| 2000 | 11341 | 25 | 35 | 30 | ||||
| 2010 | 10512 | 50 | 14 | 21 | ||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
After a lynching, such as in Akron, Galion, and Urbana, “I found the prejudice much stronger than it was before the lynching, and the Negroes fewer in number.”
[Frank U. Quillen, The Color Line in OH (Ann Arbor: Wahr, 1913), 115.]
Galion had a lynching in 1882.
Frank Fisher, black, lynched for assault of young girl, 4/30/1882, NY Times 5/1/1882.
Email testimony from a former resident: “I can only offer dimly remembered anecdotal evidence for this, but my family lived in Galion from 1964 until 1966; however many years later when we moved away, my mother told me that when she and my father first moved to town, the real estate agent who showed them around mentioned that the last “Negro” who had tried to move there had been lynched, something she (the real estate agent, not my mother, thankfully) seemed to feel was something of a selling point.”
Email testimony from a former resident: “I lived in Galion, Ohio from 1952 until 1964 and found it to be extremely biased and unaccepting of anyone from the [black] race, anyone outside of those who came from certain ethnic backgrounds, those below a certain economic status, and a nonacceptance of people who were of certain religions other than protestant. I have lived in 15 different states and have found that Galion was the hardest adjustment that I have ever tried to make.”