Ohio
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?
- Probably
Census Information
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| 1950 | 6208 | 6 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 8441 | 10 | ||||||
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Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- German Protestant
- German Catholic
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
One local resident says the town was sundown.
Another nearby resident testifies:
“I live in a heavily German county in Western Ohio (the German belt runs along the Indiana/Ohio border from Cincinnatti to Van Wert County to the north of me). After the Civil War, some Southerners that had been slave owners who owned lands in this area, offered that property to some of their former slaves who sought new beginnings in the North. They got to Cincinnati, then took a canal boat on the Miami & Erie Canal to a town (St. Marys) the next county over (Auglaize). They were met by German farmers with guns and told in no uncertain terms to stay on the boat and head back to Cincinnati. Our local paper did an article on this some years ago.”