Oxford, MS Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Twelve thousand residents and eleven thousand students enable OXFORD , an enclave of wealth in a predominantly poor region, to blend rural charm with a busy nightlife. Its central square is archetypal smalltown America, but the leafy streets have a vaguely European air – the town named itself after the English city as part of its campaign to persuade the University of Mississippi , known as Ole Miss, to locate its main campus here. It's an undeniably pretty, appealing place today, but this leafy campus was, in September 1962, the site of the most bitter display of racial hatred seen in Mississippi. After … more »