The Paul Laurence Dunbar plaque is over 80 years old. It was a gift from the Forest City Garden Club of Cleveland in 1941 along with two Japanese Lilac trees. One tree remains and it lives in the Western Reserve Herb Garden near the Terrace section. It is an excellent...
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a native Ohioan, born in 1872 in Dayton, Ohio to parents, Matilda and Joshua Dunbar, both natives of Kentucky, who had both been enslaved in their youth. His father had escaped from slavery and served in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and the 5th Massachusetts Colored.Young...
