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This image is of a group of students arranged on the front steps of Prospect School. Prospect and Pleasant Street schools were identical buildings both built in 1887. Prospect served the west side and Pleasant the east side of town. Writing on the…

The Toni Morrison Society launched the "Bench by the Side of the Road" project in 2006, on the occasion of novelist Toni Morrison's 75th birthday. The society places benches at sites important to African American history. The project developed in…

The John Mercer Langston House, built in 1855 and located on East College Street across from Eastwood Elementary School, was the home of John Mercer Langston and his family from 1856 until 1867. John Mercer Langston was an Oberlin graduate and…

Photo from the Big Parade 2014. The Big Parade has been an Oberlin tradition since the early 2000s. Community residents and college students make floats, wear costumes, and march through Tappan Square.

Photo from the Big Parade 2014. The Big Parade has been an Oberlin tradition since the early 2000s. Community residents and college students make floats, wear costumes, and march through Tappan Square.

Photo from the Big Parade 2014. The Big Parade has been an Oberlin tradition since the early 2000s. Community residents and college students make floats, wear costumes, and march through Tappan Square.

Photo from the Big Parade 2014. The Big Parade has been an Oberlin tradition since the early 2000s. Community residents and college students make floats, wear costumes, and march through Tappan Square.

Photo from the Big Parade 2014. The Big Parade has been an Oberlin tradition since the early 2000s. Community residents and college students make floats, wear costumes, and march through Tappan Square.

Photo from the Big Parade 2014. The Big Parade has been an Oberlin tradition since the early 2000s. Community residents and college students make floats, wear costumes, and march through Tappan Square.

Photo from the Big Parade 2014. The Big Parade has been an Oberlin tradition since the early 2000s. Community residents and college students make floats, wear costumes, and march through Tappan Square.

Photo from the Big Parade 2014. The Big Parade has been an Oberlin tradition since the early 2000s. Community residents and college students make floats, wear costumes, and march through Tappan Square.

Photo from the Big Parade 2014. The Big Parade has been an Oberlin tradition since the early 2000s. Community residents and college students make floats, wear costumes, and march through Tappan Square.

Photo from the Big Parade 2014. The Big Parade has been an Oberlin tradition since the early 2000s. Community residents and college students make floats, wear costumes, and march through Tappan Square.

The Kendall Precision Lawn Chair Drill Team at the Big Parade, 2014. Kendall is a retirement community in Oberlin. Every year residents come out and do a synchronized routine set to music with their lawn chairs.

A photo of the tombstone of John Jay Shipherd, one of the founders of Oberlin, from his burial place in the Olivet City Cemetery in Olivet, Michigan.

An 1837 sketch of the community of Oberlin, which had been established only four years earlier in 1833.