Editing Oakland, Mississippi (section)

==History==
Oakland was first settled around 1836, and was located {{convert|1.5|mi|km|abbr=on}} east of its present location.  The town moved when the [[Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad]] was built in the 1850s.<ref name="Rowland">{{cite book | last = Rowland | first = Dunbar | title = Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form | publisher = Southern Historical Publishing Association | year = 1907 | url = https://archive.org/details/mississippicompr02rowl | volume = 2 | pages = 348, 349}}</ref>

During the Civil War, the Battle of Oakland occurred on December 3, 1862, when Union Army General [[Cadwallader C. Washburn|Cadwallader C. Washburn's]] 1,900 cavalrymen encountered Confederate Colonel John Summerfield Griffith's [[6th Texas Cavalry Regiment]] at Oakland.  Both sides withdrew after several hours of fighting.<ref>{{cite web | title = Battle of Oakland | publisher = Yalobusha County | url = http://www.yalobushaonline.org/media-gallery/detail/48/72 | accessdate = June 19, 2021}}</ref>

In the early 1900s, the farms surrounding Oakland produced corn, cotton, vegetables and fruits, and "it is claimed that Oakland pears rival those of California".  Oakland was prosperous, and "one of the best business towns of its size in the State", with two churches, a cotton  gin, schools, merchants, and a bank, The Bank of Oakland.<ref name="Rowland"/>