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Basic Information Type of Place Independent City or Town Metro Area? Independent City or Town Politics c. 1860? Unions, Organized Labor? Sundown Town Status Confirmed Sundown Town? Surely Year of Greatest Interest Was there an ordinance? Don't Know Sign? Perhaps, Some Oral Evidence Still Sundown? Probably Not, Although Still Very Few Blacks Census Information Total White Black Asian Native Hispanic Other BHshld 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 240 0 2000 284 279 0 0 0 5 3 Tell Us More About This Town 2 + 5: (to stop spam) Email: Method of Exclusion Unknown Main Ethnic Group(s). Unknown Group(s) Excluded Black Comments In approximately 1930, "the blacks lived in a small area near the mining camp about 5 miles out of town and there were no restrictions until a black man broke into the house of a prominent citizen of Nauvoo with the intention of harming his wife (or so the story goes) and after that blacks had to be out of town by 6 in the evening. There was a sign in the town that did say, 'Don't let the sun set on your heels in this town Nigger.' "I don't have any idea when the sign came down. I think I remember it in the early 50's but it must have come down with civil rights. I do remember very clearly that blacks were not allowed to eat in restaurants and had to eat at picnic tables out back. And of course the restrooms and water fountains were marked whites only. "My grandparents had a cotton farm and hired many black men and women to help picking and according to my 82 year old mother they were treated as equals on their farm and served dinner (noon meal) along with everyone else on the farm. She did say that churches and schools were definitely segregated, no surprise there." -former resident of Nauvoo

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