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Elwood, IN - History
We would like to provide the residents of Elwood a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Elwood Home page. The Elwood Home page provides as much information as possible on Elwood. Knowing Elwood’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Elwood’s Home page, you will also find Elwood’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Elwood has a population of 8435. 45.2% of Elwood’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.8 are female. 39.2% of Elwood is married and 63.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $67,503, and the average rent is $723. Household median income in Elwood is $44,752, and the individual median income is $27,382. Elwood’s Ethnic is the following: White(95.4%), Hispanic(5.7%), Multiple(2.6%), Black(1.3%), Other(0.5%), Asian(0.2%).
Elwood was laid out in 1853 under the name Duck Creek. It was incorporated as a city in 1891.A post office was established under the name Duck Creek in 1855, was renamed to Elwood in 1869, and has been operating since.By the 1880s, Elwood had become a sundown town, prohibiting Black people from residing within the town.
In 1897, when a number of Black families attempted to settle in the town and they were driven out. The Evening Times, in Washington D.C., reported that for more than two decades Black people had not been “permitted to remain any length of time.” This prohibition remained in place for most of the 20th century.Elwood native Wendell Willkie accepted nomination by the Republican party for the 1940 presidential election by holding a large rally of close to 150,000 in the community.
Although some prominent Black reporters, such as Marse Callaway of Baltimore, were allowed to briefly stay in a hotel downtown, others were unable to stay the night due to the community’s sundown status. Other Black people were discouraged from attempting to attend the rally at all due to the sundown signs posted at the city limits.
These signs and policies remained in place for decades afterwards.By the late twentieth century sundown policies were less strictly enforced, although as recently as 2002 law enforcement in nearby Marion considered Elwood to still be unwelcoming of Black people. In 2015, after Goshen, Indiana, passed a resolution acknowledging its history as a sundown town, Elwood’s own past became a topic of discussion.
The mayor of Elwood stated that while he had had no knowledge of the racially exclusionary policies of Elwood’s past, he would address them if they were part of Elwood’s “lingering reputation.”Elwood was the site of a great political event on August 17, 1940. The Republican National Committee held a formal notification ceremony to recognize Elwood-born Wendell Willkie as its nominee for President of the United States to run against Franklin Roosevelt.
Held at Callaway Park on the outskirts of town, the ceremony drew 150,000 people for what would become the largest political rally in American history at the time. People came in 60,000 automobiles, 63 special trains, 300 Pullmans, and 1,200 buses. The Indiana University band led a parade in which 249 other bands also marched in the procession.
When Willkie stepped onto the platform, the crowd cheered him for ten minutes before he could begin his speech. However, oppressive heat and Willkie's underwhelming, flat speech left many disappointed by the end of the day.
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