About Oxford, Alabama

Oxford is a city of 22,069 people, mostly in Calhoun County, in northeast Alabama just south of Anniston. Creeks of the Abeika towns lived here before settlers came. The first settlement was a cluster of log cabins called Lick Skillet, and it grew into a trading town for cotton farmers. Residents later renamed it for the English university city, and on February 7, 1852, Oxford became the first town in Calhoun County to incorporate.

The Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad had run its tracks through town by 1862. In 1899 Black residents of a segregated section called Mooree Quarter asked the county to let them form a town of their own. The county agreed, and they incorporated as Hobson City, named for a naval hero of the Spanish-American War. At the time it was only the second town in the country governed entirely by African Americans.

  • Oxford College, 1867 to 1900Local citizens donated the land and a two-story brick building for Oxford College, which taught the area's boys and girls. The city bought the building in 1909 and ran it as Oxford's high school until a new one replaced it on the same site in 1950.
  • Oxford Lake at Marble SpringsIn the late 1880s a lake was built around Marble Springs, southeast of town, and Oxford Lake became a favorite place to gather. An electric streetcar carried people out from Anniston and Oxford. Crowds thinned in the Great Depression of the 1930s and returned in World War II, when rides, roller skating and ball fields were added. The town bought the lake in 1955, and the Coldwater Covered Bridge, built in 1850, now stands in Oxford Lake Park.
  • A depot from 1884The railroad reached Oxford by 1862, and the town's depot dates from 1884. In the 1910s Oxford sat on both the Southern Railway and the Louisville & Nashville, with a cottonseed oil mill, a cotton gin, a fertilizer plant, a firebrick plant and a cotton-cord and twine mill, plus iron ore and coal mines nearby. The Oxford Railway Depot joined the National Register in 2025.
  • Mounds older than the CreeksArchaeologists have found several mounds here that predate the Creeks. They belonged to a ceremonial center important to the whole region, and Native Americans lived there without a break until they were forced out in the 1830s. When a developer damaged one of the largest mounds in the late 2000s, the story made local and national news, and the city, archaeologists and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation began working together on what to do with its remains.

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Names on the Oxford map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks21

  • Oxford City Hall
  • DeArmanville
  • Friendship
  • Boiling Spring
  • Blue Pond
  • Burns Crossroad
  • Bynum
  • Cheaha Acres
  • Coldwater
  • Forest Hills
  • Gauldinville
  • Hicks
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  • Knoxville
  • Lakeview
  • Lardent
  • McAding
  • McKibben
  • New Haven
  • Oak Hill
  • Trinity
  • Vinnette

Streets and roads139

  • Bynum Boulevard
  • Al Highway 21
  • Barry Street
  • Snow Street
  • Green Acres Road
  • Red Oak Drive
  • Main Street
  • McIntosh Road
  • Airport Road
  • Friendship Road
  • Taylors Chapel Road
  • County Line Road
  • Leon Smith Parkway
  • Morgan Road
  • West Ninth Street
  • Ponderosa Trail
  • Beck Road
  • County Line Road West
  • Peaceful Valley Road
  • Buckelew Road
  • Turner Road
  • Cecile Drive
  • Little John Drive
  • Hinton Drive
  • Circle Drive
  • Green Valley Drive
  • Sunny Eve Road
  • Lane Road
  • Mahaffey Road
  • Carterton Heights
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  • Caffey Drive
  • Denny Road
  • Hale Street
  • Recreation Drive
  • Self Road
  • Mary Drive
  • Knight Drive
  • Grogan Road
  • Park Place
  • Digby Road
  • Lori Lane
  • Hamric Drive East
  • Hamric Drive West
  • Coldwater Road
  • Watson Drive
  • Bynum Cutoff Road
  • Marsh Lane
  • Gunnells Lane
  • Pace Street
  • Apple Blossom Way
  • Davis Avenue
  • Cheaha Drive
  • Dearmanville Road
  • Kirby Road
  • Ina Lane
  • Parker Lane
  • Locke Drive
  • Southwood Drive
  • Scenic Circle
  • Sand Trap Circle
  • Anna Brook Lane
  • Frances Boulevard
  • McCullars Lane
  • Memorial Drive
  • Donna Drive
  • Huntcliff Drive
  • Chevron Road
  • Grandview Drive
  • Dogwood Drive
  • Luttrell Street
  • Irby Drive
  • Peek Drive
  • Elm Street
  • Lakewood Drive
  • Gidley Road
  • Fitzgerald Road
  • Mellon Lane
  • Monta Vista Road
  • Coweta Trail
  • Lark Lane
  • Butler Street
  • Forney Street
  • Noah Lane
  • Lake Street
  • Glover Drive
  • Apple Valley Lane
  • Sue Drive
  • Del Ray Drive
  • Carrie Lee Circle
  • My Drive
  • Kelly Lynn Drive
  • Aspen Lane
  • Alex Lane
  • Gable Lane
  • Alan Drive
  • CC Road
  • Cobb Road
  • Caldard Pass
  • Brentwood Drive
  • Evans Lane
  • Alan Street
  • Patricia Lane
  • Willow Cove Road
  • Bama Drive
  • Knoxville Lane
  • Amy Lane
  • Dorris Drive
  • Lena Lane
  • Walker Street
  • Mamie Drive
  • Rose Avenue
  • Rilda Road
  • Dixie Drive
  • Old Highway 202
  • Southmoor Circle
  • Mellon Bridge Road
  • Wilson Willingham Road
  • Glen Davis Lane
  • Buckhorn Road
  • Country Oaks Drive
  • Jewell Road
  • Hilldale Road
  • Forestdale Drive
  • Victory Road
  • Stone Street
  • Forever Wild Lane
  • Coffee Lane
  • Spring Branch Street
  • Lester Avenue
  • Mavin Street
  • O'Rear Lane
  • Penny Lane
  • Joe Street
  • Allred Drive
  • Burns Street
  • Bobo Lane
  • Scott Lane
  • Alice Street
  • Hill Street

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