Colonel Charles Young House, Columbia Pike between Clifton & Stevenson Roads, Wilberforce, Greene County, OH

Significance: Colonel Charles Young (1864-1922), the third black man to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, was the highest ranking black officer in World War I. He was also the first black military attache in American history and the second black man federally appointed to a military department. Young lived in this house during his years teaching at Wilberforce.

Survey number: HABS OH-2249

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74001506

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1933 - 1970

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