James Bell, back row, second from right. “While the wreck changed his life, he was not defeated....
John Cofield
John Cofield grew up in Oxford. He is a local historian and author. John is the son of renowned University photographer, Jack Cofield. His grandfather, J. R. “Colonel” Cofield, was William Faulkner’s personal photographer, and for decades was Ole Miss annual photographer. Four generations of the Cofield family have contributed to Oxford’s pictorial history.
When Three Dog Night released “Joy to the World”, it would go on to be its signature...
Rebel Drive In on Jackson Avenue Extended / Business 6. The drive-in was located approximately where Home...
Photograph from the University of Mississippi Library collection.
Ernest Oliver’s picture of his son’s cowboy-themed birthday party at the park is a Norman Rockwell-worthy image...
C&M Package Store was a student mainstay for many semesters. And being the closest store of spirits...
In the early 1900s, Oxford had a large cotton industry. There were three gins surrounding the Square,...
In 1949, William Faulkner walked from his home at Rowan Oak, up South 11th Street to the...
Many local kids remember field trips to the dairy, and getting a free chocolate milk! For the...
“I was visiting Granny in Oxford in 1979 when B.B. King was recording his Now Appearing at...
You had to keep an eye out for student cars coming and going at Webster’s Shop-Rite and...
William Faulkner wrote it, Joseph Pulitzer and Alfred Nobel confirmed it, “…the Center, the Focus, the Hub…,”...
Night scene on Square, 1961, photo by Martin Dain (c) The Martin J. Dain Collection.
This photo has taken on two different lives. It has been stated that the crowd at the...
“There was a blacksmith here in Oxford named Mr. Hall, who had a shop on Tyler Avenue,...
As kids, we roamed through the Sardis backwaters not giving it the proper respect deserved. As adults,...
The second Lafayette County Courthouse was erected in 1872. This photograph was taken shortly after itwas opened,...
In 1892, Jim Ivy was part of the construction crew building a bridge over the Tallahatchie River...
About one hundred feet long and half as high, the wooden bridge was built in the 1850s...