Washington
Basic Information
- Type of Place
- Independent City or Town
- Metro Area
- Politics c. 1860?
- Unions, Organized Labor?
Sundown Town Status
- Sundown Town in the Past?
- Possible
- Was there an ordinance?
- Sign?
- Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
Census Information
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Email 1/2008
“Someone raised here (now age 41) made a comment about how things have improved because “Blacks aren’t run out of town within 3 weeks the way they used to be” — new resident.
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“As you come into Colville, you would have noticed a
large white cross (lighted of course) upon the hill
overlooking the city. History has it that these were first
erected (not just here) to keep blacks out and cities
white. Now they have become ‘identifiers’ that these
communities are Christian in nature and, thus reveal
nothing about their past. The Colville cross is on
private land and therefore cannot be challenged.”
-Colville resident