THE 365 PROJECT

Wheeling Gaunt's legacy lives on in Yellow Springs as the village continues his willed desire to have flour given to the poor, worthy widows of Yellow Springs regardless of their race. Below are several pictures taken from articles written about the Christmas gift tradition that the village maintains. Originally, the widows were to be given 25 pounds of flour but the village later changed it to 10 pounds of flour and 10 pounds of sugar to be given out every year. As we can se

Welcome to our second installment of blog posts dedicated to the life and legacy of Wheeling Gaunt!! When we left off we had learned about Gaunt's early years as a slave in Kentucky and how he eventually purchased his freedom as well as the freedom of his wife, Amanda and a family friend named Nick. The couple eventually made the move to a village in southern Ohio by the name of Yellow Springs. Once settled in the town, Gaunt went to work utilizing his notable entrepreneur sk

Good afternoon and Happy Father's Day! The 365 Project working in partnership with the Yellow Springs Arts Council and the Yellow Springs Historical Society to raise money for a bronze statue of one of Yellow Springs most prominent entrepreneurs: Wheeling Gaunt. Now, who is Wheeling Gaunt? Some of you may be asking yourselves. Wheeling Gaunt was born in 1812 in Carrollton, North Carolina into the institution of slavery. Gaunt was the son of a slave woman and a prosperous Whit