John Cofield

John Cofield’s Photo of the Week: “Caboose Hill”

John Cofield May 17, 2023

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Phillip Bryant‘s unique law office at the corner of 9th Street and Jefferson gave the steep grade its nickname which lasts to this day, long after it moved away… Caboose Hill.

Photograph courtesy Sidney Tucker Rowland.

John Cofield

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John Cofield grew up in Oxford. He 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.

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