Looking back
Subtitle: 200 years of Oxford history
By: by Lewis Bowling
Publisher: Donning Company Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Virginia Beach, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781578649921
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Before 1746: Indians, wild turkeys, deer, bear, and buffalo of great magnitude; title: 1746/1763: formation of a county called Granville; title: 1764/1804: Oxford Plantation; title: 1805/1840: laid off into a town by the name of Oxford; title: 1841/1860: antebellum Oxford; title: 1861/1890: the War between the States, railroads, a great tobacco market, and two orphanages; title: 1891/1920: Oxford grows, buggy factories, warehouses, and Edwards Hose and Ladder Company; title: 1921/1940: the blue dot, a library, Hoover carts, G.C. Shaw, and Henry Cheatham Pass; title: 1941/1945: war comes to Oxford; title: 1946/1970: football, business booms, tobacco a precious weed, and a death rocks Oxford; title: 1971/2015: demise of tobacco, rise of manufacturing, and barriers broken.