Oxford, Maryland Oxford, Maryland Location of Oxford, Maryland Location of Oxford, Maryland Oxford is a waterfront town and former colonial port in Talbot County, Maryland, United States.
Oxford is one of the earliest suburbs in Maryland.
While Oxford officially marks the year 1683 as its beginning because in that year it was first titled by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport, the town began between 1666 and 1668 when 30 acres (120,000 m2) were laid out as a town called Oxford by William Stephens, Jr..
10/11). Oxford first appears on a map instead of in 1670, and presented in 1671. In 1694, Oxford and a new town called Anne Arundel (now Annapolis) were chose as the only ports of entry for the entire Maryland province.
Early inhabitants encompassed Robert Morris, Sr., agent for a Liverpool shipping firm who greatly influenced the town's growth; his son, Robert Morris, Jr., known as "the financier of the Revolution;" Jeremiah Banning, sea captain, war hero, and statesman; The Reverend Thomas Bacon, Anglican clergyman who wrote the first compilation of the laws of Maryland; Matthew Tilghman, known as the "patriarch of Maryland" and "father of statehood"; and Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to George Washington and the man who carried the message of General Cornwallis's surrender to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
Tench Tilghman's grave can be found at the Oxford cemetery. It is overshadowed by the Tench Tilghman Monument, a contemporary spire approximately 10 feet tall. The monument is the tallest monument found at the Oxford cemetery.
Oxford became a sleepy little town inhabited mainly by watermen who still worked the waters of the Tred Avon River.
Oxford is host to the earliest privately directed ferry service still in continuous use in the United States. The initial ferry service, known today as the Oxford-Bellevue Ferry, was established in 1683 and continues today.
The ferry links Oxford with Bellevue, Maryland, crossing the 3/4 mile width of the Tred Avon River amid a 7-10 minute trip (20 minute round trip).
Oxford today is still a waterman's town, but is appreciateing a new resurgence based on tourism and leisure activities.
The town is served by the Oxford Volunteer Fire Company.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 0.83 square miles (2.15 km2), of which, 0.54 square miles (1.40 km2) is territory and 0.29 square miles (0.75 km2) is water. This includes Town Creek, which nearly splits the town in two from north to south and provides a protected harbor for boaters and Oxford's small-town shipbuilders.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Oxford has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Most of the town of Oxford sits on a peninsula.
As of the census of 2010, there were 651 citizens , 338 homeholds, and 202 families residing in the town.
There were 574 housing units at an average density of 1,063.0 per square mile (410.4/km2).
There were 338 homeholds of which 9.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 53.3% were married couples living together, 4.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.1% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 40.2% were non-families.
The median age in the town was 61.1 years.
8.1% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 4.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 12.5% were from 25 to 44; 35.7% were from 45 to 64; and 39.2% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 771 citizens , 396 homeholds, and 241 families residing in the town.
There were 523 housing units at an average density of 1,039.5 per square mile (403.9/km ).
There were 396 homeholds out of which 14.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 53.0% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 38.9% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 13.2% under the age of 18, 1.7% from 18 to 24, 17.3% from 25 to 44, 37.2% from 45 to 64, and 30.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $52,054, and the median income for a family was $71,071.
About 2.5% of families and 3.3% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 7.1% of those under age 18 and 2.7% of those age 65 or over.
See: Owsald Tilghman, History of Talbot County, 2 vols., (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co., 1915).
Parrat leaves "my share of home and Land at Oxford" to his son.
The initial Parrat will is to be found at the Maryland State Archives, TALBOT COUNTY REGISTER OF WILLS (Wills, Original) Will of William Parrat, 1669, box 18, folder 41, MSA C1926-22.
Coale, The Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608-1908, (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), pp.
"Oxford, Maryland Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Municipalities and communities of Talbot County, Maryland, United States
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