by Naiya Patel-Kapka | Apr 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Moon Memories In the summer of 2019 the Oberlin Heritage Center invited individuals to share their memories of the moon landing, which occurred 50 years earlier. The following includes the invitation and the memories that were submitted giving OHC permission to...
by Naiya Patel-Kapka | Apr 9, 2026 | History Highlights, Uncategorized
Lorain County, Ohio: Ecological History Guide When the town of Oberlin, Ohio was founded in 1833, agriculture was Ohio’s number one industry and was a major component of Ohio’s economy, and still is today. Ohio’s landscape and soil composition are naturally well...
by Naiya Patel-Kapka | Mar 12, 2026 | History Highlights, Uncategorized
John Mercer Langston: Educator and Statesman People across the world have been drawn to Oberlin, a modest Ohio town, for many reasons: its culturally diverse and active community, its innovative College, and, notably, opportunities many people of color did not have...
by Naiya Patel-Kapka | Feb 19, 2026 | History Highlights, Uncategorized
The Capture of La Amistad In January of 1839, a group of newly-captured African “slaves” were put on a ship bound for Cuba, where they would be sold into slavery. Among this group were four children, including a young girl, about seven years old, named...
by Liz Schultz | Feb 17, 2025 | Abolition, Uncategorized
These were twenty of the thirty-seven citizens from Oberlin and Wellington who were charged with breaking the law by helping John Price escape from slave catchers in the fall of 1858. The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue and subsequent trial caught the eye of the nation as...
