Oxford, Mississippi

Oxford, United States

Oxford, Mississippi shares 45 connections with 5854 other places across 13 topics, with music and government forming the two largest clusters. The city was named in 1837 by founders who intended it as a learning center for the Old Southwest, and the state university followed in 1848. Oxford hosts the only federally licensed facility in the United States to cultivate marijuana for scientific research. Musicians including Adam Gussow and Caroline Herring are among those based here. Virginia and Louisiana share many of its connections.