Oxford (Mississippi)

Lafayette County

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Oxford is a city in the north of the U.S. state of Mississippi. In Oxford is the county seat of Lafayette County. The town was founded in 1835 and named after the university town in England. Oxford has 11,756 inhabitants ( 2000 census ).

History

Oxford and Lafayette County were purchased from the Chickasaw Indians in 1832. The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, 1848 gegeründet. During the Civil War, Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant captured in 1862 and William T. Sherman the city. 1962 aroused the racism in Oxford nationwide attention. The National Guard had the first black student at the University of Mississippi, James Meredith, protect them from angry protesters. The place is known among other things as a long term living and working center of William Faulkner. The 1930 Nobel purchased the villa in which he wrote many of his great works, is now a museum.

International made ​​headlines Oxford as part of the presidential election in the United States in 2008 by the September 26 (local time) performed "first presidential debate ," the television debate between Barack Obama and John McCain.