Historic Oberlin Village celebrates 165 years with BBQ, jazz, tours
Historic Oberlin Village: Community built by enslaved and freed Black families celebrates 165 years in Raleigh
RALEIGH, NC – Learn about and help preserve Raleigh’s rich Black history right in your own backyard. On Saturday, April 29, Friends of Oberlin Village is hosting a family-friendly event including historic trolley tours, free jazz music, a marketplace for shopping local, a pop-up museum, a BBQ dinner and more.
This annual event celebrates the legacy of one of the last known surviving antebellum Black settlements in the entire state.
Explore Raleigh’s Black history on our trolley tours – running all evening during the event – to visit each of the historic landmarks within Oberlin Village, including:
• The 3-acre Oberlin Cemetery, established in 1873 soon after emancipation
• The site of the lost Latta University, a segregated college no longer standing today
• Wilson Temple United Methodist, one of the original congregations of historic Oberlin
• Multiple late Victorian homes belonging to early Oberlin families
Guests can also take part in a historic moment: The installation of an NC Civil Rights Marker honoring 41 students arrested at the former Cameron Village.
Date: Saturday, April 29
Time: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Location: 815 Oberlin Road, Raleigh, NC
Contact: Heather Doyle at friendsofoberlin@gmail.com
Tickets: $20 and available here - https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5745282
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Friends of Oberlin Village
RALEIGH, NC – Oberlin Village, one of the last known surviving antebellum Black settlements
founded by a free Black man in the state of North Carolina, is celebrating its 165th anniversary
by hosting a family-friendly event including historic trolley tours, free jazz music, a marketplace
for shopping local, a pop-up museum, BBQ dinner with dessert and more.
Friends of Oberlin invites you the 8th annual ‘Celebrate Oberlin’ barbecue. Come learn about
and help preserve Raleigh’s rich Black history right in your own backyard.
Trolley tours will take guests to see seven Raleigh Historic Landmark sites within the Historic
Overlay District of Oberlin Village, including the 3-acre Oberlin Cemetery, established in 1873,
which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other sites include: the Latta
University site, Wilson Temple United Methodist, and multiple homes belonging to original
Oberlin families.
Friends of Oberlin and partner organizations, like the City of Raleigh, PreservationNC and
WakeMed, will host a pop-up museum with educational exhibits, featuring:
- Oberlin Cemetery
- Oberlin’s military service and medical pioneers
- The comprehensive plan for the Latta University Historic Park
- The Fields-Graves and Plummer T. Hall historic houses
- The NC Civil Rights Marker honoring 41 students arrested at the former Cameron
Village
A Friends of Oberlin marketplace will have limited edition notecards with renderings by local
artists and other merchandise. Jazz music will be performed by the band EPIC.
Dinner is catered by City Barbecue and includes a choice of pulled pork or pulled chicken, two
sides, a dessert and beverage. Curbside ordering and pickup service will also be available.
Arrive early and stay late, and make sure to bring a chair or blanket to spread out on the lawn.
Proceeds will benefit Friends of Oberlin’s preservation, awareness and educational initiatives.
Date: Saturday, April 29
Time: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Location: 815 Oberlin Road, Raleigh, NC
Contact: friendsofoberlin@gmail.com
Tickets: $20 and available here - https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5745282
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The Friends of Oberlin Village (FOV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was
established in 2011. We invite you to visit FriendsOfOberlinVillage.org for additional
information.
established in 2011. We invite you to visit FriendsOfOberlinVillage.org for additional
information.
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