The Oxbow Historic District encompasses a well-preserved rural agricultural area on United States Route 5 in northern Newbury, Vermont.

It was one of the first areas to be settled in the town, and includes seven agricultural properties, with six farmhouses built before 1835 and a number of surviving 19th-century farm outbuildings.

[1] The town of Newbury is a rural community located on the upper reaches of the Connecticut River in central eastern Vermont.

The Newbury side had particularly rich agricultural land in an area known locally as the Great Oxbow, created by a large bend in the river.

[2] US 5 follows a roughly north-south route in the area, and thus bypasses the large curve of the river oxbow.