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.
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
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oxberry, Mississippi
- ^ "Vanished Villages". Holcomb, Mississippi. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Grenada County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
- ^ J. C. Hathorn. A History of Grenada County. David Jensen. p. 36.
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