by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Sep 24, 2014 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent 150 years ago this week, an important, but often overlooked, battle was fought in the American Civil War. It was the Battle of New Market Heights, fought September 29, 1864, on the outskirts of the Confederate...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jul 25, 2014 | Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent The party was such a success that it would make the local paper. Fifty guests crowded into the house on South Water Street (present day Park Street) – among them the Mayor of Oberlin, Civil War veterans,...
