Hanby House

(614) 891-6289

160 W Main St
Westerville, OH 43081 40.1261 -82.9375

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The Scene – This mid-19th-century home was owned by Benjamin Hanby, an abolitionist, teacher, minister and composer of 80 or so songs, who died at age 33 in 1867. One of his songs, "Up on the Housetop," remains a children's Christmas classic, and "Darling Nelly Gray" stoked abolitionist fervor in the late 1850s. Hanby based this well-known song on the true story of Joseph Selby, a runaway slave who died in 1842 while trying to reach Canada in hopes of making enough money to buy his sweetheart and fellow slave, Nelly Gray. – – The Experience – Hanby House is listed…

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