• 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

    The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society in Oberlin is proud to partner with Poets Against Racism & Hate in bringing their Ohio Underground Railroad Whistle-Stop Poetry Tour to the…

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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, Nord Family Foundation, Bill Long Foundation, National Underground Railroad Network…

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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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