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U.S. Route 158 bypasses Oxford on the northern side, leading east 12 miles (19 km) to Henderson and west 25 miles (40 km) to Roxboro. According to the United States Census Bureau, Oxford has a total area of 6.1 square miles (15.7 km 2), all land. [17] Oxford contains three voting precincts in Granville County: Credle, East Oxford, and South Oxford.
Granville County and St. John's Parish were established on June 28, 1746, from the upper part of Edgecombe County. [3] It was named for the John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, [4] who as heir to one of the eight original Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, claimed one eighth of the land granted in the charter of 1665.
The ultimate result, combined with the legislature's approving the addition of a college-transfer program, was the construction and subsequent opening of the new Vance–Granville Community College campus in 1976 on an 83-acre (340,000 m 2) tract in Vance County, midway between Henderson and Oxford, off Interstate 85.
Transportation in Granville County, North Carolina (13 P) Pages in category "Granville County, North Carolina" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
J. F. Webb High School is a high school located in Oxford, North Carolina, USA. It contained one subsidiary school, the J.F. Webb School of Health & Life Sciences, which merged with J. F. Webb in 2020. It was named after J. F. Webb, a superintendent of Granville County Schools during the second half of the 1900s.
Located in the district is the separately listed Granville County Courthouse (1838-1840). Other notable buildings include the Bryant-Kingsbury House (c. 1825), Taylor-McClanahan-Smith House (1820s), former Granville County Jail (Granville County Museum, 1858), Oxford Women's Club (c. 1850), Titus Grandy House (1850s), Oxford Presbyterian Church ...
People from Oxford, North Carolina (26 P) Pages in category "People from Granville County, North Carolina" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Granville County, North Carolina.Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view an online map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.