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James W. Loewen (1942-2021)

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Unionville

Nevada

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?
Probable
Was there an ordinance?
Don't Know
Sign?
Don’t Know
Year of Greatest Interest
1869
Still Sundown?
Don’t Know

Census Information

The available census data from 1860 to the present
Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld
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Method of Exclusion

  • Violent Expulsion

Main Ethnic Group(s)

  • Unknown

Group(s) Excluded

  • Asian

Comments

Unionville, county seat of Humboldt County, expelled all of its Chinese “in the middle of January 1869.” The sheriff did nothing. Charges were filed against leaders but dropped. But after Unionville declined as a mining center, a few Chinese returned to mine, 1880s-1905 or so, elsewhere in the county. See Loren B. Chan, “The Chinese in Nevada,” in Arif Dirlik, ed., Chinese on the American Frontier (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), 98-99.