Oxberry,_Mississippi

Oxberry, Mississippi

Oxberry, Mississippi

Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States

Oxberry is an unincorporated community located in Grenada County, Mississippi, United States and part of the Grenada Micropolitan Statistical Area . Oxberry is approximately 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Holcomb, Mississippi and approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south-southeast of Cascilla, Mississippi on Mississippi Highway 35.

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Oxberry is named for James Oxberry, who was a Choctaw interpreter and owned the surrounding land where the community developed.[2]

The community was once home to a saw mill and cotton gin.[3]

A post office operated under the name Oxberry from 1891 to 1908.[4]

Oxberry was once located on the Rankin-Memphis Road, which was a road built through Choctaw lands prior to the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oxberry, Mississippi
  2. [2]
    "Vanished Villages". Holcomb, Mississippi. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  3. [3]
    Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 368.
  4. [4]
    "Grenada County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
  5. [5]
    J. C. Hathorn. A History of Grenada County. David Jensen. p. 36.


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