Washington
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
Census Information
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| 1990 | 6267 | 54 | 3 | |||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
Comments
Although Chehalis appears to have a significant black population, they are overwhelmingly male, and are mostly residents of the Green Hill School, an institution for juvenile offenders.
“Aside from a couple of students with Native American heritage and the children of a few local Jewish merchants, there were no ‘minorities’ in town. I do not even recall any Chinese restaurants there.” -former Chehalis resident