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Lafayette County Courthouse: The courthouse square has been the center of Oxford social life since the city was founded in 1837. The original Lafayette County Courthouse was built in 1840, but it was burned in 1864 by Union troops led by Gen. A.J. "Whiskey" Smith. The present building dates from 1873 and was designated a National Historic Monument in 1977. A statue of a Confederate soldier looks down South Lamar Ave., as depicted in The Sound and the Fury. Also located on the Courthouse square is a World War II memorial featuring two lines Faulkner wrote:
THEY HELD NOT THEIRS, BUT ALL MEN'S LIBERTY / |
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