New Jersey
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?
- Don’t Know
- Year of Greatest Interest
- Still Sundown?
- Surely Not
Census Information
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| 2000 | 20499 | 14646 | 3949 | 675 | 60 | 1621 | ||
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Method of Exclusion
- Zoning
- Reputation
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
There are two towns named Hamilton Township in
New Jersey. This entry discusses the Hamilton
Township in Atlantic County.
New Jersey Resident:
Hamilton Township is a mostly pinelands township
about 15 miles west of Atlantic City. A former mayor
recalled growing up in the town, and how there were
no blacks allowed after dark in the Mays Landing
village section of the township, with the exception of
the town barber. Instead, everyone of color was
required to live (and to this day many still do) live
about five miles west in the Mizpah section of the
township. They were informal restrictions, he said, but
they existed.