Oberlin, Ohio Oberlin City of Oberlin Oberlin Location of Oberlin, Ohio Location of Oberlin, Ohio Location of Oberlin in Lorain County Location of Oberlin in Lorain County State Ohio Oberlin is a town/city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, southwest of Cleveland.
Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students.
Oberlin was established in 1833 by two Presbyterian ministers, John Jay Shipherd and Philo P.
The two decided to name their improve after Jean-Frederic Oberlin (1740 1826), an Alsatian minister whose pedagogical achievements in a poor and remote region had greatly impressed and inspired them.
The motto of the new Oberlin Collegiate Institute was "Learning and Labor." In those days the words were taken quite literally: tuition at Oberlin was free, but students were expected to contribute by helping to build and sustain the community.
In Oberlin's earliest years, transit (especially for students) was relied heavily on weather-dependent Lake Erie transit routes; the nearest barns passed through Wellington, and travellers were forced to rely on stagecoaches between that village and Oberlin.
This situation changed in 1852: in that year, the Toledo, Norwalk, and Cleveland Railroad opened a stop in Oberlin along its Grafton line, and immediately the college and village felt the effects of Fortuna's smile. Fifteen years later, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway opened a new rail station along this line; no longer used for rail transportation, the depot has been converted for improve use and sits at the center of a park. On June 28, 1924, the worst flood in Oberlin history occurred on the same day that a tornado killed 62 citizens in Lorain.
The second biggest employer in Oberlin (after the eponymous College) is the Federal Aviation Administration, which homes an Air Route Traffic Control Center in the town.
Towards the middle of the 19th century, Oberlin became a primary focus of the abolitionist boss in the United States.
The town was conceived as an integrated improve and blacks attended Oberlin College from 1835, when brothers Gideon Quarles and Charles Henry Langston were admitted.
Their younger brother John Mercer Langston, who became the first black propel to the United States Congress from Virginia in 1888, also graduated from Oberlin.
Many Oberlin College graduates were dedicated abolitionists, who traveled throughout the South working to help slaves escape to the north.
Arthur Tappan, financial agent of the Oberlin Collegiate Institute, and co-founder John Shipherd, saw an opportunity to solve Oberlin's financial enigma by inviting the rebels (including Mahan and Morgan) to come to Oberlin.
The rebels agreed under three conditions: that Oberlin accept students regardless of color, that Oberlin respect students' freedom of speech, and that Oberlin not "interfere with the internal regulation of the school." In the fall of 1835, Oberlin opened a new theology school with Asa Mahan as President, Charles Finney as Professor of theology, and the Lane Rebels among the first theology students. By 1852, the town of Oberlin was an active end on the Underground Railroad, and thousands had already passed through it on their way to freedom.
This accomplishment was assisted by an Ohio law that allowed fugitive slaves to apply for a writ of habeas corpus, which protected them from extradition back to the southern states from which they had escaped.
In 1858, a newly propel Democratic state council repealed this law, making fugitives around Oberlin vulnerable to enforcement of the Federal Fugitive Slave Law, which allowed southern slave-catchers to target and extradite them back to the South.
A large group of Oberlin residents, consisting of both white and black townspeople, students, and faculty, set out for Wellington to release Price from captivity.
Oberlin "Rescuers" outside the Cuyahoga County jail.
The political ferment resulting from the case led to a number of primary protests throughout the northern part of the state, and an unprecedented boost to the anti-slavery Republican party in the 1860 State elections.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.96 square miles (12.85 km2), of which, 4.92 square miles (12.74 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. Oberlin experiences a humid continental (Koppen Dfa) climate.
The town/city rests inside the northern snowbelt of Ohio and is tempered by the Great Lakes.
Climate data for Oberlin, Ohio Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 6.0 4.8 3.1 0.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.6 5 21.3 There were 2,730 homeholds of which 24.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 35.9% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.4% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 49.4% were non-families.
14.8% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 37.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 14.5% were from 25 to 44; 18.5% were from 45 to 64; and 14.7% were 65 years of age or older.
Of the city's populace over the age of 25, 41.1% hold a bachelor's degree or higher. There were 2,678 homeholds out of which 21.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 38.5% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 47.9% were non-families.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 14.7% under the age of 18, 36.9% from 18 to 24, 16.4% from 25 to 44, 17.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
Oberlin is governed by a town/city manager and a seven-member council which is propel to two-year terms in a non-partisan election.
The town/city of Oberlin runs an online dashboard that displays the city's use of resources in real time.
Effective from July 2013, the dashboard shows outputs of infrastructure, such as Oberlin's power plant and water treatment plant. Oberlin lies at the intersection of state routes 58 and 511.
Oberlin also lies on a paved bicycle and pedestrian path, the North Coast Inland Trail, which travels southwest to Kipton and northeast to Elyria.
Like many lesser municipalities athwart Ohio, Oberlin used to be served by barns s but presently has no barns service.
The Cleveland & Southwestern interurban line from Elyria served Oberlin from approx.
Main and the line continued West to Norwalk Ohio, competing with the Lake Shore Electric into the city.
Lorain County Transit (LCT) used to furnish one bus route to Oberlin, but route 33 was shut down because of funding shortfalls. Frederic de Forest Allen, (1844 1897), born in Oberlin, classical scholar Charles Grandison Finney, (1792 1875), minister, professor and president of the Oberlin College (1851 1866) Charles Martin Hall, (1863 1914), lived in Oberlin 1873 1914, co-discoverer of Hall-Heroult process, founder of Alcoa Albert Mussey Johnson, (1872 1948), born in Oberlin, eccentric multi-millionaire industrialist Matt Wilhelm, born in Oberlin, experienced football player Oberlin has two sister cities, as designated by the Sister Cities International. Oberlin High School Oberlin Heritage Center Apollo Theater (Oberlin, Ohio) United States Enumeration Bureau.
1924 flood in Oberlin, Ohio "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census.
"Population of Civil Divisions Less than Counties" (PDF).
Statistics of the Population of the United States at the Tenth Census.
"Population: Ohio" (PDF).
"Population: Ohio" (PDF).
"Number of Inhabitants: Ohio" (PDF).
18th Enumeration of the United States.
"Ohio: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
"Oberlin's Connections Around the World".
Oberlin College.
Burroughs, Wilbur Greeley (1886-1974): Oberlin's Part in the Slavery Conflict, Ohio Arch ological and Historical Society Publications: Volume 20 [1911], pp.
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