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2 unusual facts about Buford


Battle of Waxhaws

The community in which the battlefield is located is now called Buford.

Rest Haven, Georgia

In 2005, it was announced on September 19 that the town leaders wished to be annexed into Buford, a much larger city which surrounds Rest Haven except on the north.


Battle of Brandy Station

They struck Buford's leading brigade, commanded by Col. Benjamin F. Davis, near a bend in the Beverly's Ford Road and temporarily checked its progress, and Davis was killed in the ensuing fighting.

Bill Buford

Buford is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany.

Subsequently, Buford started working on a book on French cuisine.

Bona Allen Company

A statue of Roy Rogers, his horse Trigger, and saddle-maker Jack Johnson now stands in downtown Buford’s park as a tribute to the tannery.

Camp Poplar River

January 23, 1881, Capt. Simon Snyder, Fifth Infantry, with Company F, Fifth Infantry, with all available transportation, left Camp Poplar River for Wolf Point to assist a band of Indians under Crow King numbering about 300 (who had refused to go with Sitting Bull to Canada), on their journey to Fort Buford.

Harry Buford House

The Harry Buford House is located at 1804 North 30th Street in North Omaha, Nebraska.

Reportedly, the location of the Buford House on the west side of 30th Street indicated the status of the Buford family in Omaha during a time of racial segregation.

Henry Lytton-Cobbold

--Martha is apparently the granddaughter of J. Buford Boone, Sr., 1957 Pulitzer Prize winner--> He is a great-great-great grandson of novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

John Buford

Afterward, Buford's troopers were sent by Pleasonton to Emmitsburg, Maryland, to resupply and refit, an ill-advised decision that uncovered the Union left flank.

Maury Buford

During Super Bowl XLIV, Buford joined other members of the 1985 Chicago Bears in resurrecting the Super Bowl Shuffle in a Boost Mobile commercial.

The Boogie Kings

The band formulated in Eunice, Louisiana in 1955 as teenagers first consisting members Doug Ardoin, Skip Morris, Bert Miller, Byron Launey, Norris Badeaux, Bryan Leger, Murphy Buford and Harris Miller.


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