Wilson Bruce Evans House

	Wilson Bruce Evans House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark
Location	33 E. Vine St., Oberlin, Ohio
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Built	1856
Architect	Unknown
Architectural style	Italianate
NRHP Reference #	80003143
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 16, 1980
Designated NHL	December 9, 1997

Wilson Bruce Evans House, also known as LOR-239-21, is a house in Oberlin, Ohio and was a major stop on the Underground Railroad. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.^[2]^[3]

History

The Evans house was the home of Wilson Bruce Evans, a prominent African-American abolitionist and early benefactor of Oberlin College, the first college to admit students of color. Evans rose to national attention after his importance in the 1858 Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, one of the events that challenged the controversial Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.^[4] Although Evans was not an outspoken abolitionist like his colleagues Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, Evans was cited as a man who "put justice above his own safety." The house was a frequent stop for travelers on the Underground Railroad such as Harriet Tubman.^[5]

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v t e Underground Railroad
People	William L. Chaplin Levi Coffin Richard Dillingham Calvin Fairbank Thomas Garrett Laura Smith Haviland Daniel Hughes William Cooper Nell Harriet Forten Purvis Robert Purvis John Rankin Hetty Reckless Gerrit Smith William Still Harriet Beecher Stowe Charles Turner Torrey Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Delia Webster
Places	List of Underground Railroad sites houses churches Levi Coffin House Bialystoker Synagogue Bilger's Rocks Wilson Bruce Evans House Cyrus Gates Farmstead Sites in Indiana Allen Chapel Town Clock Church F. Julius LeMoyne House National Underground Railroad Freedom Center John Rankin House Gerrit Smith Estate John Freeman Walls Historic Site
Events	Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Pearl incident Jerry Rescue Uncle Tom's Cabin Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Thirteenth Amendment
Topics	Songs of the Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad Records Abolitionism in the United States Abolitionism opponents of slavery African-American opponents publications Fugitive slaves Fugitive slave laws 1850 Quilts Slave catcher Roots of Resistance (1989 documentary) The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War (book)
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