Oxberry, Mississippi


Oxberry is an unincorporated community located in Grenada County, Mississippi, United States and part of the Grenada Micropolitan Statistical Area. Oxberry is approximately northwest of Holcomb, Mississippi and approximately south-southeast of Cascilla, Mississippi on Mississippi Highway 35.
Oxberry is named for James Oxberry, who was a Choctaw interpreter and owned the surrounding land where the community developed.
The community was once home to a saw mill and cotton gin.
A post office operated under the name Oxberry from 1891 to 1908.
Oxberry was once located on the Rankin-Memphis Road, which was a road built through Choctaw lands prior to the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.