Trakehner Horses for Sale near Oxford, MS

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Trakehner Stallion
Please see web page for pedigree info and photos of parents. Exceptional Co..
Tupelo, Mississippi
Chestnut
Trakehner
Stallion
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Tupelo, MS
MS
$4,500
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About Oxford, MS

Oxford and Lafayette County were formed from lands ceded by the Chickasaw in the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek in 1832. The county was organized in 1836, and in 1837 three pioneers—John Martin, John Chisom, and John Craig—purchased land from Hoka, a female Chickasaw landowner, as a site for the town. They named it Oxford, intending to promote it as a center of learning in the Old Southwest. In 1841, the Mississippi legislature selected Oxford as the site of the state university, which opened in 1848. During the American Civil War, Oxford was occupied by federal troops under Generals Ulysses S.