History Features

Whet your appetite for history with these snippets of Oberlin's past.  Note: You will need Adobe Reader to view many of these documents.

• Oberlin Inventors
• Oberlin Buildings
• Women's History in Oberlin
• Community Celebrations
• 19th Century Oberlin
• 20th Century Oberlin

Oberlin Inventors

• Oberlin Inventors – Oberlin Heritage Center history feature.

Oberlin Buildings

• Historic Oberlin Today - Download this series from the Oberlin News-Tribune that highlights landmarks of Oberlin's history.
• Oberlin Then and Now database - View records of buildings that have dissappeared from the Oberlin streetscape.  This archive is a work in progress.  If you have stories or information about these buildings, we would love to add it to our records. 
• Online Oberlin Landmarks, Monuments, and Markers listings

Women's History in Oberlin

• Women’s History in Oberlin – Oberlin Heritage Center history feature.

Community Celebrations

• Juneteenth in Oberlin – Oberlin Heritage Center history feature.
• Oberlin’s Independence Day – Oberlin Heritage Center history feature.

19th Century Oberlin

• The Capture of La Amistad – Oberlin Heritage Center history feature.
• Charles Finney in Oberlin - Oberlin Heritage Center feature, by intern and OC student César Palacio.
• The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue 1858 – Oberlin Heritage Center history feature.
• The Battle of Kessler's Cross Lanes – Oberlin Heritage Center feature on the Civil War, by Richard Donegan
• The 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry at The Battle of Kernstown- Oberlin Heritage Center feature on the Civil War, by Richard Donegan
• Hiram Alonzo Pease: The Legend of a Principled Abolitionist- Oberlin Heritage Center feature on the Civil War, by Richard Donegan
• The Squirrel Hunters: Citizen Soldiers and the Defense of Ohio in the Civil War- Oberlin Heritage Center feature on the Civil War, by Richard Donegan

20th Century Oberlin

• Memories of Oberlin College in the 1940s – Jim Sunshine (OC 1949) reflects on Oberlin of the 1940s.
• Racial Progress at Oberlin College, 1940-1946 – An article by Oberlin College Archivist Emeritus William Bigglestone discussing race relations at Oberlin College during the years 1940-1946.