Recently, the National Park Service accepted Wilson Bruce Evans House, owned and managed by the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society, as a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.
Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society
Evans was a man of African American decent who led the “Wellington-Oberlin Rescue,” one of the lesser-known events that sparked the U.S. Civil War.
His Oberlin home is being restored as a museum.
Legacy of Black abolitionist Wilson Bruce Evans lives on with his Oberlin home
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