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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

We mourn the loss of our friend and colleague and remain committed to the work he began.

Greenhills

Ohio

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?
Probable
Was there an ordinance?
Don't Know
Sign?
Don’t Know
Year of Greatest Interest
Still Sundown?
Surely Not

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940 2677 1
1950 3005 0
1960 5407 0
1970 6092 10 16
1980 4927 23
1990 4321 38 5
2000 4103 110 1 15
2010 3615 241 3 30
2020

Method of Exclusion

Main Ethnic Group(s)

Group(s) Excluded

  • Black

Comments

Email testimony from 06/2014: “The F.D.R. administration set up several towns across America during the depression and for one reason or another many of those towns ended up becoming sundown towns. One of which was Greenhills, Ohio.”