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A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
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From 1851 to at least 1876, Antioch, California, had a sundown ordinance that barred Chinese residents from being out in public after dark. [34] In 1876, white residents drove the Chinese out of town and then burned down the Chinatown section of the city.
The Bedford flag on display at the Bedford Free Public Library is the oldest known surviving intact battle flag in the United States. It is celebrated for having been the first U.S. flag flown during the American Revolutionary War, as it is believed to have been carried by Nathaniel Page's outfit of Minutemen to the Old North Bridge in Concord for the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775.
Also facing the common is Bedford's town hall, which was built in 1857 as a school, and has seen a variety of civic uses before housing town offices. When the district was listed on the National Register in 1977, its period of significance extended to 1927; in 2014, the district underwent boundary adjustments that increased its size by 20 acres ...
Seastreak began offering high-speed ferry service from New Bedford State Pier in 2005, 2023, 175,000 people were coming in and out of Seastreak's New Bedford State Pier terminal per year.
One of the main roads through Bedford is Ohio State Route 14 (OH-14). It runs northwest to southeast and follows the original stagecoach route between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Within Bedford city limits, OH-14 is known as Broadway Avenue. [7] Other main roads in Bedford include: Columbus Road runs from the northeast to the Bedford Reservation.
Aerial view of the town of Bedford along with neighboring towns of Mount Kisco, Bedford Hills and Katonah.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 39.4 square miles (102.1 km 2), of which 37.2 square miles (96.3 km 2) is land and 2.2 square miles (5.8 km 2), or 5.70%, is water. [12]