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Oxford is a city in Newton County, Georgia, United States. The population was 2,308 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. It is the location of Oxford College of Emory University. Much of the city is part of the Oxford Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.

Oxford College of Emory University (Oxford College) is a residential college of Emory University, a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Oxford College is located in Oxford and specializes in the foundations of liberal arts education. The college is located on Emory University's original campus 38 miles (61 km) east of Emory's current Atlanta campus. Students who enroll in Oxford College complete an associate of the arts degree there, after which they can continue their studies at Emory's Atlanta campus to pursue a bachelor degree without any additional applications. Oxford College has an enrollment of nearly 1,000 freshman and sophomore students. Campus organizations include various community service groups, interest clubs, and social clubs, the school's replacement for traditional fraternities and sororities. The university-wide unofficial mascot, a skeleton named "Lord Dooley", has its origins in the Oxford campus. In terms of athletics, the college participates in NJCAA Division III sports, with the men's and women's tennis teams having won national championships multiple times.

Covington Municipal Airport (IATA: KCVC, FAA LID: CVC) is a city-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Covington, a city in Newton County, Georgia, United States.

Covington is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia and the seat of Newton County, and is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2010 Census, its population 14,113.

Newton County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 112,483. The county seat is Covington.Newton County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Newton County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Courthouse Square in Covington, Georgia, the county seat of Newton County, Georgia. The courthouse was designed by Bruce & Morgan in a Second Empire architecture style and built in 1884. It was constructed on the same site as a previouse county courthouse building that burned down on December 31, 1883. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1980. The courthouse features in two postcards from around 1907.

The Newton County Schools System is a public school district in Newton County, Georgia, United States, based in Covington.It includes all areas of the county except for areas in Social Circle; portions in Social Circle are in the Social Circle City School District. It serves the communities of Covington, Mansfield, Newborn, Oxford, and Porterdale.

Newton High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Covington, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Newton County School System. Located thirty-two miles outside Atlanta, it is one of three schools serving Newton County. The school serves 2,000 students in grades 9–12.

Almon is an unincorporated community in Newton County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.

The Porterdale Historic District in Porterdale, Georgia is a 525 acres (212 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Its area is roughly the city limits of Porterdale north of Elm St., and it includes Colonial Revival, Late Gothic Revival, and other architecture. In 2001 it included 496 contributing buildings and eight contributing structures. It also included 37 non-contributing buildings and a non-contributing object.It includes three mill complexes and mill worker housing.It includes: Porterdale Mill (1899), built on the north bank of the Yellow River (Yellow River (Georgia)?), a three-story brick building stretching about 800 feet (240 m) along the river, with a four-story tower (see photos #3-#8 accompanying the NRHP nomination document) Welaunee Mill (c.1920), on south bank of the Yellow River, a two-story brick mill with a three-story tower (see photo #1). Osprey Mill (1916), the largest of the three mills, covering two square blocks in the center of town (see photos 35, 36, 37, 41)Other properties in the district include: Porter Memorial Gymnasium, 2201 Main St, Porterdale, Georgia (1938), designed by architect Ellamae Ellis League. Damaged by fire in October 2005, it was converted in an adaptive reuse to become an outdoor event center, winning a Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation award. (See photo #12 in NRHP document.)Edward Lloyd Thomas (surveyor) had some involvement with the district.

Porterdale is a town in Newton County, Georgia, the United States. The population was 1,429 at the 2010 census.

Big Haynes Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a tributary to the Yellow River.Big Haynes Creek was named after Thomas Haynes, proprietor of a local gin.