Letohatchee, Alabama

Letohatchee, Alabama
Letohatchee, Alabama
Unincorporated community
	Letohatchee Post Office
	Letohatchee Letohatchee
	Coordinates: 32°07′47″N86°29′09″W / 32.12972°N 86.48583°W
Country	United States
State	Alabama
County	Lowndes
Elevation	322 ft (98 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code	334
GNIS feature ID	121509

Last updated March 30, 2024

Letohatchee is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Alabama, United States. It has a very small population and four businesses. The community is part of the Montgomery Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Location

Letohatchee is located just south of Montgomery in Lowndes County. In the 21st century, much of Letohatchee is uninhabited, with large pastures and uncut woods. Its area is estimated at 18 miles across.

This was an area of extensive cotton cultivation into the early decades of the 20th century, and Lowndes County was majority black. Whites' efforts to maintain white supremacy raised tensions in the black-majority county. The Democrat-dominated legislature disenfranchised most blacks and many poor whites by provisions of a new constitution in 1901.

Whites also resorted to racial terrorism in the form of lynchings. In 1900 a mob killed a black man accused of killing a white man. When local black resident Jim Cross objected, he was killed, too, at his house; whites then shot and killed his wife, son and daughter. In 1917 William Powell and his brother (recorded as Samuel or Jesse) were both lynched for alleged insolence to a white farmer on the road.^[3] No whites were prosecuted in these cases. On July 31, 2016, a historical marker was erected by the Equal Justice Initiative to commemorate these extrajudicial executions.^[3]

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
1880	73	—
1890	112	53.4%
U.S. Decennial Census^[4]

Letohatchee was listed on the 1880 and 1890 U.S. Census as a separate community; these were the only years when it was listed separately. It is now included in Montgomery.

The zip code for Letohatchee is 36047^[5] and the population for the entire code (of which Letohatchee is a part) was 1,396 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. Of that, it is 71% black and 29% white (with less than 1% for other races).^[6]

Industry

Letohatchee has two industrial plants, four convenience stores and one restaurant/cattle yard and a post office. The American Colloid Company operates a Bentonite clay mining operation here.

Education

Calhoun High School is the secondary school for the community.

Gallery

Letohatchee Post Office (ZIP Code: 36047
Calhoun Colored School (1892-1945) was located near Letohatchee. The principal's house, the only surviving original building, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 26, 1976.

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References

↑ "Letohatchee". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
↑ "Supplement: Lynchings by County/ Louisiana: Ouachita ", 2nd edition Archived April 10, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , from Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, 2015, Equal Justice Institute, Montgomery, Alabama
1 2 3 "EJI Dedicates Marker to Commemorate Lynchings in Letohatchee, Alabama" Archived August 12, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , Equal Justice Initiative, August 1, 2016
↑ "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
↑ "Letohatchee, AL 36047". Letohatchee, AL 36047.
↑ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved November 18, 2015.

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[1] "Letohatchee". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.

[supp-2] "Supplement: Lynchings by County/ Louisiana: Ouachita ", 2nd edition Archived April 10, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , from Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, 2015, Equal Justice Institute, Montgomery, Alabama

[leto-3] 1 2 3 "EJI Dedicates Marker to Commemorate Lynchings in Letohatchee, Alabama" Archived August 12, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , Equal Justice Initiative, August 1, 2016

[4] "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Retrieved June 6, 2013.

[5] "Letohatchee, AL 36047". Letohatchee, AL 36047.

[6] "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved November 18, 2015.

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