On North Main Street (Ohio Route 58) just north of West Lorain Street ( Route 511), on the left when traveling north.
First Church was built by the Oberlin Community in 1842-44
for the great evangelist Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875).
He was its pastor, headed Oberlin College’s Theology Department, and later became College president. In the
mid-19th . . . — — Map (db m144079) HM
On E College Street 0 miles east of King Street, on the right when traveling east.
Jabez Lyman Burrell (1806-1900), originally from Massachusetts, built this house in 1852. Burrell made his living as a cattleman and farmer, but devoted much of his time to serving the cause of abolitionism, helping slaves who had escaped the South . . . — — Map (db m101111) HM
On South Professor Street 0.1 miles south of West College Street, on the left when traveling south.
Aluminum pioneer Charles Martin Hall was born in 1863 in Thompson, Ohio (Geauga County), and moved with his family to Oberlin in 1873. Hall graduated from Oberlin College in 1885, studying chemistry under Professor Frank Fanning Jewett . . . — — Map (db m224994) HM
On West College Street at South Main Street ( Route 58), on the right when traveling east on West College Street.
The intersection of Main and College streets has been the center of
Oberlin since the town and college were founded in 1833. The first
downtown buildings were made of wood and were destroyed by a series
of spectacular fires. The first college . . . — — Map (db m144173) HM
On North Professor Street at Memorial Arch, on the right when traveling north on North Professor Street.
Massacred Charles Wesley Price • Eva Jane Price • Ernest Richmond Atwater • Elizabeth Graham Atwater
Children
Florence Price
• Celia Bell Atwater
• Bertha Bowen Atwater
Near Fenchowfu, Shansi, China
August 15, . . . — — Map (db m277578) WM
On North Professor Street south of West Lorain Street.
This memorial arch, designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee and dedicated on 14 May 1902, was brought into being by friends of the Oberlin - connected missionaries who lost their lives in the Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900. — — Map (db m277554) HM
On East Lorain Street (Ohio Route 511) at North Main Street ( Route 58), on the right when traveling west on East Lorain Street.
A key junction on the Underground Railroad in Oberlin, Ohio connected at least five routes that led from slavery to freedom. No fugitive in Oberlin was ever returned to bondage. Freedom seekers lived openly in the town, and were supported by its . . . — — Map (db m144166) HM
Near South Professor Street south of Elm St, on the right when traveling south.
Oberlin College and Community. Founded in 1833. Reverend John Jay Shipherd and Philo Penfield Stewart envisioned an educational institution and colony dedicated to the glory of God and named in honor of John Frederick Oberlin, . . . — — Map (db m144277) HM
On East College Street at South Main Street, on the right when traveling west on East College Street.
Near this site, in 1833, Peter Pindar Pease (April 12, 1795 - October 22, 1861) became the first settler of Oberlin, building his cabin under the Historic Elm. In 1834, he became a charter member of the Board of Trustees of the newly established . . . — — Map (db m277587) HM
This fence is made from railings that graced the Morgan Street Bridge from circa 1880 to 2008. Oberlin Heritage Center volunteers devoted many hours to salvage, repair and installed them here for all to enjoy. — — Map (db m144251) HM
On Morgan Street 0.7 miles west of South Professor Street, on the right when traveling west.
Shortly after Oberlin Colony was established in 1833, a two-acre burying ground was set aside south of Plum Creek in the area bounded by Main, Morgan, and Professor streets. By 1861, however, with the town and Oberlin College growing and the Civil . . . — — Map (db m144282) HM
On West College Street at North Professor Street, on the right when traveling west on West College Street.
Willard Van Orman Quine was one of the greatest philosophers and
logicians of the 20th century. Born in Akron on June 25, 1908, Quine
studied philosophy and logic at Oberlin College (B.A. 1930). He received
his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard . . . — — Map (db m144178) HM
On East Vine Street at South Main Street, on the right when traveling east on East Vine Street.
The Wilson Bruce Evans House, 33 East Vine Street, is a rare example of a residence built and occupied by an African American abolitionist and Underground Railroad operative. Free-born in North Carolina, Wilson Bruce Evans (1824-1898) moved to . . . — — Map (db m315256) HM
