Courthouse Clock - Oxford, MS
Posted by: YoSam.
N 34° 21.991 W 089° 31.098
16S E 268416 N 3805669
On top the county courthouse
Waymark Code: WMQ27E
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 12/05/2015
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County of site: Lafayette County
Location of site: Courthouse Square, between Jackson St. & Van Buren Ave., Oxford
Architects: Willis, Sloan, and Trigg
re-Built: 1872; restored: 1903
Did not ring or chime, but kept moving.
Simple face on the clock, with four faces around the short tower and common black pointing hands
This is the University of Mississippi town, and the square was full of students and staff even on my visit.
Built 1864, burnt by Union troops, re-built 1872, and additions a restoration in 1903 and modernized inside and retoried the outside in 2008