Cedar Oaks

Union troops seized the house, built around 1857 by the architect and builder William Turner, as their headquarters during the occupation of Oxford and set it afire when they left. Turner's daughter, Molly Turner Orr, saved it by organizing a fire brigade. Nearly a century later development threatened it again. This time the house was cut in half and moved about two miles, from North Lamar, where the Oxford Downtown Inn now stands, to Murray Drive. It now hosts receptions, weddings and tours.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oxford Square — 1.3 mi
  The courthouse square laid out in 1837 on land bought from a Chickasaw woman, rebuilt after the 1864 burning and home to Square Books and a memorial to Lafayette County's lynching victims.
• Rowan Oak — 1.8 mi
  William Faulkner's Greek Revival house in Oxford, bought in 1930 and kept by the University of Mississippi, with the outline of A Fable still written on his study wall.
• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 2.2 mi
  The 1848 Greek Revival building at the center of the Ole Miss campus, where federal marshals held off a mob on 30 September 1962 and James Meredith registered the next morning.
• Sardis Lake and Dam — 17 mi
  A flood-control lake on the Little Tallahatchie, built from 1930s labor and a dredge named Pontotoc, with a dam that for years was the largest earth-filled dam in the world.

More markers nearby

• L.Q.C. Lamar House — 0.9 mi
• Oxford Blues — 1.3 mi
• St. Peter's (1851), Episcopal — 1.4 mi
• Burns "Belfry" Church — 1.4 mi