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53-575: The Oberlin News-Tribune was a weekly newspaper in Oberlin, Ohio . It closed in 2018. Donald J. Pease was the editor and co-publisher. Pease moved to Oberlin in 1957 after serving in the Army; he had been hired as managing editor of the News-Tribune. Later, he became part owner. The weekly newspaper won over 85 prizes at national and state level, it was named best newspaper best among papers with

106-497: A city manager and a seven-member council which is elected to two-year terms in a non-partisan election. The 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. Its municipal limits extend south to include parts of U.S. Highway 20 . Oberlin also lies on

159-683: A Lane trustee, come as president, and that Oberlin treat Black and white students equally, something no college in the United States did at the time. The trustees, although reluctantly, agreed to these conditions. The first Black enrolees, James Bradley and the brothers Gideon Quarles and Charles Henry Langston , did not enroll in Oberlin but in an affiliated school, the Sheffield Manual Labor Institute. (Their younger brother John Mercer Langston , who in 1888 became

212-428: A by a huge scythe. "Their car was a sedan. They said the wind blew so hard that they had to sit on the floor to keep it from shattering their ear drums. "We drove on toward Lorain until a tangle of fallen trees made further progress impossible. Then we got out and walked into the town. "The town was a wreck. I had an uncanny feeling as I looked at houses without roofs or without walls, as I picked my way through

265-560: A circulation under 2,300 copies multiple times under his leadership. Notable journalists who worked for the News-Tribune include Neil Zurcher , who worked at the paper for 7 years starting in 1954. Oberlin, Ohio Oberlin / oʊ b ər l ɪ n / is a city in Lorain County, Ohio , United States. It is located about 31 miles (50 km) southwest of Cleveland within the Cleveland metropolitan area . The population

318-534: A frantic appeal for help, reporting that several hundreds were injured when the theatre collapsed. A street in South Lorain also is reported to have been undermined. From Sandusky came reports that a car ferry blew over. Interurban service between here and Lorain, Sandusky, and intermediate points is at a standstill. The entire Elyria Fire and Police Departments and ambulance equipment have been sent to Lorain. The only way to reach Lorain from Cleveland

371-413: A fugitive named John Price was captured by federal officials and held in neighboring Wellington, Ohio . 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. The men took Price back from the arresting US Marshal , and eventually smuggled him to Canada, but the authorities were not content to let

424-751: A newly elected Democratic state legislature 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. This situation came to a head with the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue , a pivotal event described in Nat Brandt's book The Town That Started the Civil War . On September 13, 1858,

477-540: A paved bicycle and pedestrian path, the North Coast Inland Trail, which travels southwest to Kipton and northeast to Elyria . The path is built on the former railroad right-of-way of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Southern Branch. Like many smaller municipalities across Ohio, Oberlin was once served by railroads but currently has no railroad service. An old station is visible along

530-462: A poor and remote area had greatly impressed and inspired them. Shipherd and Stewart rode south from Elyria into the forests that then covered the northern part of Ohio in search of a suitable location for their community. After a journey of approximately eight miles, they stopped to rest and pray in the shade of an elm tree along the forest, and agreed that this would be a good place to start their community. Shipherd traveled back east and convinced

583-574: A way-station to recover on their way to Lake Erie, where they found transportation across the lake to the safety of Canada West ( Ontario ). The town of Oberlin, then, was an active "station" on the Underground Railroad . Fugitive enslaved people were assisted by a new Ohio law that allowed them 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,

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636-468: Is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km ) is water. Oberlin experiences a humid continental (Köppen D fa ) climate. Winters are cold, dry and often snowy. Summers are warm to very warm and sometimes hot. The city rests within the northern snowbelt of Ohio and is tempered by the Great Lakes . As of the census of 2010, there were 8,286 people, 2,730 households, and 1,381 families residing in

689-570: Is reported. Some Summer homes are said to have been blown down and several persons killed. Martial Law Declared in Lorain An automobile ferry plying between Sandusky and Marblehead broke loose from its moorings at Sandusky and struck a pier. Fifteen passengers on the ferry are reported to have been drowned. Martial law has been declared in Lorain by Mayor George Hoffman. Police deputized American Legion members to cooperate with them and

742-600: The National Guard . Looting is said to be going on freely. Lorain is without water, light, telephones, and food, and has little gas. First reports received here from a staff correspondent of The Plain Dealer, who motored back to the first available telephone east of Lorain, were to the effect that 200 were killed in the collapse of the State Theatre at Lorain, and that forty other were dead in other parts of

795-679: The 1860 state elections. The governor of Ohio wrote to the new Republican President Abraham Lincoln urging him to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law. Though in point of fact Lincoln declined this request, this decision did not prevent Southern states from seceding, and America was soon embroiled in the Civil War . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 4.96 square miles (12.85 km ), of which, 4.92 square miles (12.74 km )

848-719: The Elyria Hospital." First Relief Train is Blocked. Nickel Plate trainmen reported that all the Government houses north of the railroad tracks in South Lorain had been blown down. Two men were killed there and thousands of dollars worth of property damaged. Property damage at Akron, Ohio , was estimated at more than $ 1,000,000. FCleveland companies of the Ohio National Guard were being assembled in anticipation of orders to proceed to Lorain after messengers brought word that troops were wanted to aid in

901-591: 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 community 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 people in Lorain . Afterward, the water was so deep that children swam in Tappan Square . Damage

954-569: The Sandusky-Lorain tornado was a single tornado event due to the 25-mile path of the storm across Lake Erie between Sandusky and Lorain; however, many eyewitnesses reported a single storm crossing the lake before coming onshore again in Lorain. Other tornadoes struck Castalia ( Erie County ), Huron Township ( Erie County ) and Geauga Lake ( Portage County ) in addition to Erie and Meadville in northwestern Pennsylvania . At least five additional people were killed by other tornadoes on

1007-564: The State Theatre (sic) in Lorain, the chief of police of Elyria reported at 9:30 to-night. Estimates of 300 dead and 1,500 injured are not exaggerated. The storm carried telegraph and telephone wires down with it, isolating Sandusky, Lorain and other points in the northern part of the State, making confirmation of reports impossible. A motorist who drove from Loraine (sic) notified the Cleveland Plain Dealer that not only

1060-428: The age of 18 living with them, 35.9% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.4% had a male householder with no wife present, and 49.4% were non-families. 38.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.86. The median age in

1113-506: The area. In Oberlin's earliest years, transportation (especially for students) depended heavily on weather-dependent Lake Erie transportation routes; the nearest railroad passed through Wellington , and travellers were forced to rely on stagecoaches between that village and Oberlin. This situation changed in 1852 when the Toledo, Norwalk, and Cleveland Railroad opened a stop in Oberlin along its Grafton line. Fifteen years later,

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1166-405: The average family size was 2.89. In the city the population 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. The median age was 24 years. For every 100 females, there were 77.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 73.2 males. The median income for a household in the city

1219-620: The bad condition of the tracks, the Nickel Plate dispatched announced. A second Nickel Plate train is due at Lorain at 11 P.M. The first relief train made no report of the conditions found at Lorain. A relief train was sent to the scene by the Nickel Plate Railroad, while all police emergency cars and other available automobiles left here with nurses and physicians. Rescuers Send Call for Help." The Elyria fire department, which succeeded in reaching Lorain, sent out

1272-478: The bike path. The Cleveland & Southwestern interurban line from Elyria served Oberlin from approximately 1903 to its demise in 1928. Its rails basically followed Oberlin/Elyria Rd / Rt 231 from the east, entering town on E. College St, then turned South and followed Rt 58 to Wellington. There was a wye at S. Main and the line continued west to Norwalk , competing with the Lake Shore Electric into

1325-473: The car. Driving back to Bay Village, we overtook a number of refugees who came pouring out of the city a few minutes after the storm struck. "One of these was a man who said he owned a four-family apartment house which had been wrecked. Two people were found buried in the debris, he said. "We met a man hurrying toward Lorain, who besought us for news. He said his wife and family were in the wrecked area. Ambulances and automobiles were rushing storm victims to

1378-592: The city on a loop. Oberlin's sister cities are: 1924 Lorain%E2%80%93Sandusky tornado On that day, a low pressure system moved from Iowa towards Michigan and Ontario . Temperatures were in the lower 80s across most of northern Ohio, which is typical for late-June across that area. The tornado formed over the Sandusky Bay during the late afternoon hours and hit the city of Sandusky where it killed eight and destroyed 100 homes and 25 businesses. After moving east over Lake Erie for several miles,

1431-462: The city was 23.3 years. 14.8% of residents 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. The gender makeup of the city was 46.0% male and 54.0% female. Of the city's population over the age of 25, 41.1% hold a bachelor's degree or higher. As of the census of 2000, there were 8,195 people, 2,678 households, and 1,395 families residing in

1484-652: The city. Lorain County Transit (LCT) formerly offered two bus routes in Oberlin on the 33 and 21 routes. The routes were shut down due to funding shortfalls. LCT currently operates a door-to-door "Oberlin Connector" bus service, with trips required to begin or end in within Oberlin. Since 2024, Oberlin is served by the EBus, a fare-free public transit bus route operating under contract by Slidr and support from LCT using electric vehicles making several stops across

1537-627: The city. Reports from various other sources place the number of the dead as high as 500. Rain continued to fall in Lorain for several hours. Confirmation of the collapse of the theatre and washout of the Black River bridge at Lorain was brought to Cleveland by A. Downer, conductor on the Lake Shore Electric Railway , the first eyewitness of the disaster to reach this city. Many women and children were killed, motorists told him. Practically every house on Broadway,

1590-431: The city. The population density was 1,871.5 inhabitants per square mile (722.6/km ). There were 2,836 housing units at an average density of 647.7 per square mile (250.1/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 71.92% White , 18.55% African American , 0.49% Native American , 3.40% Asian , 0.17% Pacific Islander , 1.21% from other races , and 4.26% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.04% of

1643-466: The city. The population density was 1,684.1 inhabitants per square mile (650.2/km ). There were 2,984 housing units at an average density of 606.5 per square mile (234.2/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 73.0% White, 14.8% African American, 0.2% Native American, 4.0% Asian, 1.4% from other races, and 6.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 5.1% of the population. There were 2,730 households, of which 24.0% had children under

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1696-525: The federal officials agreed to free all but two of those indicted. Simeon M. Bushnell, a white man, and Charles H. Langston were both tried and convicted by an all-Democrat jury. Langston's eloquent speech against slavery and injustice persuaded the judge to give them light sentences, with Langston receiving 20 days in jail and a fine of $ 100. They appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus , but on May 30, 1859, their petition

1749-541: The first black elected to the United States Congress from Virginia , also studied at Oberlin.) By the middle of the 19th century, Oberlin had become a major focus of the abolitionist movement in the United States. Escaped enslaved people were relatively safe there. Thousands of escaped enslaved people crossing the Ohio River from Kentucky came through Oberlin—some to stay in the area, but most as

1802-481: The first eyewitness stories of the cyclone to reach Cleveland was brought back by L.F. Forster of Bay Village. He was in Lorain within a few minutes after the cyclone struk and he walked over several blocks of the devastated area, saw unroofed buildings, fallen trees, and telephone poles, heard screams of some of the injured and afterward saw refugees fleeing the city. "My wife and I and a party of friends were driving toward Lorain," he said. "It must have been 5:30 when

1855-482: The main street of the city east and west, was blown down, Downer reported, and automobiles were picked up and overturned on the sidewalks. Eyewitness Describes Scene The American Shipyards at Lorain are reported to have been razed. Two boats belonging to Henry Ford were reported to have broken loose. Reports here that small passenger steamers plying between Sandusky and Lake Erie Island resorts have been lost, but could not be confirmed late tonight. One of

1908-519: The matter rest. United States President James Buchanan personally requested prosecution of the group (now referred to by sympathetic parties as "the Rescuers"), and 37 of them were indicted. Twelve of those were formerly enslaved people, including Charles H. Langston. State authorities arrested the US Marshal who had captured Price. In negotiation, the state agreed to free the arresters, and

1961-529: The new Lane Theological Seminary of Cincinnati because of its treatment of the Black community and opposition to abolition of slavery. Cincinnati, on the Ohio River, was not a city where free blacks were safe, nor did Cincinnati welcome fugitives . By chance, this group encountered Shipherd, who was travelling around Ohio looking for students for his new Collegiate Institute. The group agreed to come to Oberlin, but on condition that Asa Mahan , who had resigned as

2014-501: The owner of the land to donate 500 acres (2.0 km ) of land for the school, and he purchased an additional 5,000 acres (20 km ) for the town, at the cost of $ 1.50 per acre ($ 371/km ). In 1834 a charter for the new Oberlin Collegiate Institute was obtained from the legislature of Ohio, and the institute adopted as its motto "Learning and Labor." The same year saw a freshman class of four students. In those days

2067-410: The population. There were 2,678 households, out of which 21.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.5% were married couples living together, 11.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 47.9% were non-families. 35.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.31 and

2120-455: The relief work and preserve order. About fifty members of the 112th Engineers Corps were rushed to Lorain in taxicabs upon receipt of Governor Donahey's orders. They were in charge of Colonel Ralph R. White. A Nickel Plate train is ready to take the rest of the troops as soon as they can be mobilized. The first relief train sent from here by the Nickel Plate Railroad reached East Lorain late tonight, but could not proceed to Lorain because of

2173-503: The same day. The New York Times published the following article on June 29, 1924: "CLEVELAND, June 28 (Associated Press) - Three hundred are dead and at least 1,500 are injured in Lorain alone as a result of a tornado today, according to reports reaching Colonel D. H. Pond, Director of Red Cross civilian relief, here early tonight. Colonel Pond announced that he had arranged for tents for 1,000 persons to be shipped directly to Lorain from Camp Perry . Eighty dead have been taken from

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2226-489: The storm struck. We were about three or four miles east of the city and a heavy rain was falling." Saw Fires in Wrecked Town. "At a gasoline station we met another automobile that had stopped there. It had just come from Lorain and from the man and woman in it we learned there had been a cyclone. They said they had seen houses toppling over, roofs flying through the air, and trees and telephone poles mowed down as

2279-490: The streets, some of them with injured hands and legs. Many had been pinned under falling buildings and trees. "One wall of a grocery had been demolished, and the merchandise was scattered over the street. We saw a moving picture theatre which had collapsed. The balcony had fallen across the doorway. Whether anybody was in the theatre or not I do not know. Some men were trying to reach any injured who might be inside. "We left this scene of desolation and retracted our steps to

2332-684: The summer of 1832 together in nearby Elyria and discovered a shared dissatisfaction with what they saw as the lack of strong Christian morals among the settlers of the American West. Their proposed solution was to create a religious community that would more closely adhere to Biblical commandments, along with a school for training Christian missionaries who would eventually spread throughout the American frontier. The two decided to name their community after Johann Friedrich Oberlin (1740–1826), an Alsatian minister whose pedagogical achievements in

2385-481: The tornado then struck the town of Lorain just west of Cleveland , where greater than 500 houses were destroyed and 1,000 others were damaged in addition to many businesses in the downtown area. At least 72 people were killed here, including 15 people inside a collapsed theater and eight others inside the bath house located where the tornado came onshore. This tornado still ranks among the deadliest in United States history. There were uncertainties as to whether or not

2438-399: 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. This attracted a number of bright young people who would otherwise not have been able to afford tuition. The motto remains to this day. During the mid-1800s African Americans, predominantly free people of color and runaway slaves, settled in

2491-422: The wreckage in the streets. "I recall looking into one house from which the front wall had been blown out. I could see into the bedrooms and noticed the beds stood there neatly made. In the distance we could see some houses in flames, although there appeared to be no general conflagration. "The river bridge was demolished except for the footpath, which was still standing. People were running about excitedly in

2544-403: Was $ 41,094, and the median income for a family was $ 59,358. Males had a median income of $ 42,170 versus $ 27,308 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 20,704. About 6.7% of families and 19.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 11.6% of those under age 18 and 7.5% of those age 65 or over. The City of Oberlin's motto is "live, learn, lead." It is governed by

2597-709: Was 8,555 at the 2020 census . Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College , a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students. The town is the birthplace of the Anti-Saloon League and the Hall-Héroult process , the process of reducing aluminum from its fluoride salts by electrolysis, which made industrial production of aluminum possible. Oberlin was founded in 1833 by two Presbyterian ministers, John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart . The pair had become friends while spending

2650-427: Was East Lorain demolished, but the city of Lorain itself was swept away. Reports received over crippled railroad wires from Sandusky late tonight state that between fifty and seventy-five persons were killed or drowned there today when the tornado struck that city. The Sandusky water works and several large buildings along the lake front were blown down. Considerable damage along the shore line east of Cedar Point

2703-736: Was caused to all of downtown Oberlin. One of Oberlin's largest employers was the Federal Aviation Administration , which houses the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center overseeing the airspace of six states and a small part of Canada . Oberlin was not founded as an abolitionist town. Its status changed with the enrollment in 1835 of the Lane Rebels , a loose group of several dozen students coordinated by abolitionist Theodore Weld . They had withdrawn en masse from

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2756-573: Was denied. Three formerly enslaved people— Lewis Sheridan Leary , Shields Green , and John Anthony Copeland, Jr. —participated in John Brown 's famous 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry . Leary died during the raid, and Green and Copeland were hanged after arrest and conviction. The bodies of Green and Copeland were used for dissection and anatomical study at the Winchester Medical College ; the remains were discarded. Leary's body

2809-571: Was first thrown in an unmarked pit, along with the 7 of the 9 others killed during the raid; much later the bodies were disinterred and reburied at the John Brown Farm , next to his grave. (See John Brown's raiders .) The political ferment resulting from the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue led to a number of major protests throughout the northern part of Ohio, and an unprecedented boost to the anti-slavery Republican party in

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