How Did Whitestown get its name? (Indianapolis, Brownsburg: median income, living in, versus)

[Southside Shrek]

Does anyone happen to know how Whitestown, Indiana got its name? when I drove past it earlier this evening, I couldn’t help but think the town was named with a racially motivated reason—For Whites Only. I checked Wikipedia and found out there apparently are no African Americans living in Whitestown. The place is 99.15% white even in summer.







Whitestown, Indiana
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Whitestown is a town in Boone County, Indiana, United States. The population was 471 at the 2000 census.

[edit] Geography
Whitestown is located at 39°59′46″N, 86°20′41″W (39.996136, -86.344612)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.7 km² (0.3 mi²), all land.

[edit] Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 471 people, 175 households, and 131 families residing in the town. The population density was 699.4/km² (1,843.9/mi²). There were 187 housing units at an average density of 277.7/km² (732.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the town was 99.15% White, 0.21% Asian, and 0.64% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.64% of the population.

There were 175 households out of which 40.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.7% were married couples living together, 8.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.6% were non-families. 20.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.69 and the average family size was 3.10.

In the town the population was spread out with 29.5% under the age of 18, 5.1% from 18 to 24, 37.4% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 7.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 103.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.0 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $46,528, and the median income for a family was $47,917. Males had a median income of $32,031 versus $25,893 for females. The per capita income for the town was $21,674. About 8.1% of families and 7.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.6% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.

[Crew Chief]

My educated guess (I live in Ohio) is that Whitestown is probably named for the same individual that the White river (runs through Central IN) is named for...

[Southside Shrek]

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

My educated guess (I live in Ohio) is that Whitestown is probably named for the same individual that the White river (runs through Central IN) is named for...

not a bad thought Crew Chief. there's also a Whiteland, IN just to the south of Indy.

[BWG]

I've wondered the same. There certainly is a little humor in the Whitetown/Brownsburg exit sign on I65 north of town. I'm sure out of towners have fun at our expense on that.

[Southside Shrek]

Voila!! Whitestown is a town in Boone County, in the Indianapolis metro area.

The community was named for Albert S. White, railroad president

[Crew Chief]

Originally Posted by BWG

I've wondered the same. There certainly is a little humor in the Whitetown/Brownsburg exit sign on I65 north of town. I'm sure out of towners have fun at our expense on that.

BWG, it could be worse; there's a "Big Bone Lick State Park" in Northern KY...

[Southside Shrek]

Crew Chief,
had that state park been up here in Whitestown, IN, it would be Big White Bone Lick State Park.

[timincal]

Originally Posted by BWG

I've wondered the same. There certainly is a little humor in the Whitetown/Brownsburg exit sign on I65 north of town. I'm sure out of towners have fun at our expense on that.

The irony in this is so humorous, ask a person of color living in Indianapolis their opinion or understanding of Brownsburg. Ever heard of a sundown town?Google the term and see what comes up. Brownsburg was one of these towns complete with a sign and all. How do I know? From there.

[dodeca]

Originally Posted by timincal

The irony in this is so humorous, ask a person of color living in Indianapolis their opinion or understanding of Brownsburg. Ever heard of a sundown town?Google the term and see what comes up. Brownsburg was one of these towns complete with a sign and all. How do I know? From there.

Indiana had quite a few of them - in fact, it looks like most small towns and cities had some sort of legal/extralegal means of keeping black folks out.

http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/sundownt...w.php?state=IN

[DefaultAlias]

Indiana is notorious for its sundown towns. I honestly believe that every Indiana town with under 25,000 people is, or was at some point, a sundown town. It's ridiculous at times. Talk about backwards.