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...
