Howell, Evansville

Howell is a neighborhood of Evansville, Indiana, United States.

History

The town of Howell was platted in 1885 along the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and was named after Lee Howell, the local L&N freight agent. An L&N rail yard at Howell was completed in 1889. Most residents worked for the L&N.[1][2] As of 1904, the town was a sundown town, where African Americans were not allowed to live.[3] In 1915 or 1916, Evansville annexed Howell.[1][2]

References
  1. Blackford, Nathan (2015). "L&N Helped Build Evansville". Evansville City View. Tucker Publishing Group. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  2. Bigham, Darrel E. (1998). Towns and Villages of the Lower Ohio. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. p. 178. ISBN 0-8131-2042-X – via Google Books.
  3. "Negro in Indiana". The Nashville American. Nashville. July 7, 1904. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com. Feeling against the negroes in Southern Indiana is becoming more intense each day, especially since the assault on a white girl last week. There are thousands of negroes in this city, and those living along the river refuse to work. In Howell, a small station below here, negroes are not allowed to live, all strange negroes being driven out of the town by the marshal. The color line has been drawn tightly since the race riot of one year ago to-day, when several white people were killed.

See also

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