• About Evans HHS

    The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society (aka Evans HHS) honors the legacy of Wilson Bruce Evans (1824-1898), Sarah Jane Leary Evans (1829-1898) and their descendants.  The Society seeks to…

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  • What’s Happening at Evans HHS

    9/8/23 —————- Vikram Perry presents online talk on “Mr. Evans’ Neighborhood” on May 23 Click here to access video recording Contents of photograph albums from the Evans Home posted online…

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  • Our Funders

    In addition to our members and private donors, we thank our institutional funders for their financial support: Nordson Corporation Foundation, The Nord Family Foundation, Bill Long Foundation, National Underground Railroad…

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  • The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue

    Adapted with permission from Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio by Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser (LSU Press, 2018) From the mid-1830s forward, Oberlin gained…

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