• 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…

    Read More
  • What’s Happening at Evans HHS

    Third Annual Meeting to be held on Sat., Sept. 9, beginning at 11 am in Oberlin’s Martin Luther King Jr. Park (in case of rain, Abram Pavilion) All members of…

    Read More
  • 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…

    Read More
  • 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…

    Read More

Recent Posts