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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map: Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio - 1922
Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. The maps display building materials,…
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map: Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio - 1911
Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. The maps display building materials,…
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map: Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio - 1904
Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. The maps display building materials,…
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map: Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio - 1897
Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. The maps display building materials,…
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map: Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio - 1893
Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. The maps display building materials,…
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map: Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio -1888
Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. The maps display building materials,…
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map: Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio - 1884
Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. The maps display building materials,…
John Mercer Langston House
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…
Burrell-King House Historic Marker
Marks the site of the house built by Jabez Burrell, an important local abolitionist, and Henry Churchill King, who was president of Oberlin College from 1902-1927. Erected in 2002 by The Ohio Bicentennial Commission. The Longaberger Company. Oberlin…
Downtown Oberlin Historic District Historical Marker
Erected 2008 by the City of Oberlin Historic Preservation Commission, Oberlin Heritage Center, and The Ohio Historical Society.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell and the First Church of Oberlin Historic Marker
Marker about the history of First Church and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, an 1847 graduate of Oberlin's Ladies Department and one of the first women ordained as a Christian minister. Erected in 2014 by 2014 by the First Church in Oberlin, United…
Oberlin College and Community / Abolitionism in Oberlin Marker
Historic marker erected by the Ohio Bicentennial Commission, the Longaberger Co, the Oberlin Heritage Center / O.H.I.O, and the Ohio Historical Society. Front of maker is about the founding of the Oberlin College and community of Oberlin and the back…
Chalk Walk, 2008, Oberlin in Chalk
Photo of a person drawing the Oberlin College logo in red chalk on a sidewalk.
Wilson Bruce Evans
Wilson Bruce Evans was a leading member of Oberlin's 19th century African American community. He and his brother, Henry Evans, moved their families to Oberlin from North Carolina in 1854. The two men ran a successful carpentry business in town.…
Wilson Bruce Evans House
Wilson Bruce Evans and his brother, Henry Evans, were free African-Americans who lived in Oberlin. They built this house in 1855-1856 for Wilson Bruce Evans and his family. Wilson Bruce Evans was an abolitionist who participated in the 1858…
John Jay Shipherd
John Jay Shipherd co-founded both the community and college of Oberlin in 1833. Shipherd, a x pastor, wanted to create a community and a college that would adhere to Christian values, simple living, and an ethic of service to others. He named Oberlin…
"Partial View of Oberlin-1838"
An 1837 sketch of the community of Oberlin, which had been established only four years earlier in 1833.
Betty Glenn Thomas Project
In the spring of 2019, students in Oberlin College History 214 inaugurated an ongoing research project focused on the life and milieu of Betty Glenn Thomas. Elizabeth (Betty) Glenn Thomas was born at 195 North Professor Street on July 2, 1913, and…
Walking Tour of Jewett-Related Sites
Created for "Jewett Day" in 2013, this two-page brochure includes photographs, information and a map to seven local landmarks related to Frank Fanning Jewett and Sarah Frances Gulick Jewett. Mr. Jewett taught chemistry at Oberlin College and Mrs.…
History of the Schools of Oberlin
Learn about the history of public education in Oberlin, visit locations of where former schools were located, hear oral history recollections from students of the twentieth century, and explore how the school system and buildings evolved into the…
Picture the Past
This tour covers a one block radius extending from the corner of Main and College Streets and is filled with fun facts, historic photographs, and more!
Oberlin War Memorial
Erected in 1943 in the midst of World War II, the Oberlin War Memorial incorporated the marble tablets removed from an early war memorial that had been dismantled in 1934 in response to strong pacifist sentiment. Tablets on the monument's brick wall…
Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Monument
This monument, which was erected in 1990 and is located in Martin Luther King Park, commemorates the 1858 Oberlin-Wellington Rescue. In that year, slave catchers captured John Price, an escapee from slavery who was living outside Oberiln. A large…
Soldiers Monument
The Soldiers Monument was erected in 1870 to honor the 96 Oberlin men who died in the Civil War. Of the fallen, 55 were students who had been enrolled in the college, and 41 were Oberlin residents. Once located at the corner of College and Professor…