Legacy of Black abolitionist Wilson Bruce Evans lives on with his Oberlin home

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Legacy of Black abolitionist Wilson Bruce Evans lives on with his Oberlin home

By Dennis Knowles

Published November 9, 2021 at 2:10 PM EST

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 House [Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society]

Evans was a man of African American decent who led the 鈥淲ellington-Oberlin Rescue,鈥� one of the lesser-known events that sparked the U.S. Civil War.

His Oberlin home is being restored as a museum.