Oxford (http://www.cityofoxford.org/) is a small town in Butler County in Southwest Ohio. It is best known for being home to Miami University. Recognized as a Public Ivy, which describes state-funded public universities with academic programs akin to the Ivy League schools, Miami University has a body of more than 16,000 students in a town with a summer population just over 10,000. The City of Oxford actually, its predecessor, College Township was founded one year after Miami University was established in 1809. Miami was the second university in the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains after Ohio University (1804 in Athens).
