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
| Total | White | Black | Asian | Native | Hispanic | Other | BHshld | |
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| 1950 | 1231 | 0 | ||||||
| 1960 | 1336 | 0 | ||||||
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| 1990 | 1313 | 0 | ||||||
| 2000 | 1,273 | 1,257 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 2010 | ||||||||
| 2020 |
Method of Exclusion
- Unknown
Main Ethnic Group(s)
- Unknown
Group(s) Excluded
- Black
Comments
Fort Recovery was a sundown town, according to a local resident who has worked at various history museums in Cincinnati. “City officials said it was never on the books. However, they said, everybody understood that blacks were not to live in Fort Recovery. Blacks had to stay with us outside the city when they brought plants to us from far away.”
According to a resident of Ohio, “I grew up around Fort Recovery and it was common knowledge that it was a sundown town even into the 1960’s.”