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Because it was rooted in freedom, Oberlin Village provided a legacy of freedom and land ownership, creating an enduring Black settlement with an elevated degree of home ownership, artisinal pride, and an irreproachable reputation.

Little, M. Ruth. “Rooted in Freedom: Raleigh, North Carolina’s Freedmen’s Village of Oberlin, an Antebellum Free Black Enclave.” The North Carolina Historical Review, vol. XCVII, no. 4, Oct. 2020, p. 425.
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Excerpt of Oberlin History Timeline

1858: Oberlin Enclave Begins: Free Black Jesse Pettiford purchases 16-acre parcel for $160.

1865: Civil War Ends; Reconstruction Begins; Wilson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church founded (later Wilson Temple)

1866: Lewis Peck, wealthy white grocer, divided his farm into lots sold to African Americans at about $50/acre; Emerging Black enclave along old Hillsboro Road referred to as “Peck’s Place,” “Save Rent” and later “Morganton.”

1869: (1) Raleigh Cooperative Land and Building Association provided financial aid to freedmen to purchase land and build homes. (2) Oberlin School began in Wilson Chapel, and by 1882 was in a wooden one room school house.

1870: New Hillsboro Road renamed Oberlin Road

1872: Oberlin community drafted letter to Daily News editor that their village should be known as “Oberlin.” Presumably it was named after James H. Harris’ alma mater Oberlin College in Ohio.

1873: (1)Wilson Temple United Methodist church building completed, named in honor of Wilson Morgan, a Wake Co. State Representative and resident who donated the land. (2)Oberlin Cemetery officially established. According to oral tradition, the site was previously a slave graveyard.

1875:Dr. James E. Shepard, founder of the North Carolina Central University located in Durham NC, was born in Oberlin Village.

1877: Reconstruction ends, marking the return of “home rule” in the South.

1880: First Baptist Church of Oberlin formally established in the 2000 block of Wade Avenue, under guidance of the formerly enslaved Rev. Plummer T. Hall. The church was often referred to as “Halls Chapel.”

1885: Oberlin Graded School is added to the Raleigh Public School System, after Raleigh approves tax for segregated public schools in 1877.

1892: (1) Rev. Morgan L. Latta founds Latta University along Parker Street. The school provided industrial or vocational education, a night school, and orphanage. (2) A rural suburb, Oberlin opened a post office that was discontinued in 1894.

1896: Plessy v. Ferguson: “separate but equal” doctrine established

1907: Community Grocery at 901 Oberlin Road begins as a small grocery store, one of many neighborhood stores along Oberlin, but the only one still existing.

1911: Wilson Temple United Methodist Church under construction, located at 1023 Oberlin Road.

1912: Halls Chapel and Mt. Moriah Baptist Church merge to form Oberlin Baptist Church at its current location, 806 Oberlin Road

1916: Oberlin School builds new, large brick building with eight classrooms, built in from of the older wooden school at 1012 Oberlin Road.

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