1914 Bank of Itta Bena Letterhead Itta Bena Missippi

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PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING: I sell ORIGINAL items ONLY and NOT ANY reproductions. This sale is for ONE advertising LETTERHEAD from the BANK of ITTA BENA in Itta Bena, Mississippi. Dated October 29th, 1914. This letter was written to Mr.A.R.Bew, Clerk in Greenwood, Mississippi. At the time this letterhead was printed, about 1400-1500 people lived in Itta Bena. Today, this is an interesting item of Black Americana . As of the census of 2000, there were 4,000 people. The population density was 1,541.5 people per square mile (596.2/km²). There were 797 housing units at an average density of 556.4 per square mile (215.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 81.34% African American, 18.16% White, 0.23% Asian, and 0.27% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.54% of the population. Names in the Letterhead: Mr. A.R. Bew, Clerk C.P. Bradford, Notary PublicThe document has a watermark stating a paper company CONDITION: Approximate size is 8.5 in. x 10.5 in. The “EBAY ITEM” thing is just a loose piece of paper. It is not attached to the item that is for sale. HISTORICAL NOTES: Itta Bena is a city in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,049 at the 2010 census. The town’s name is derived from the Choctaw phrase iti bina, meaning “forest camp”. Itta Bena is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area. Choctaw Indians occupied the Delta region prior to the arrival of European settlers. The first removal treaty carried out under the Indian Removal Act was the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, which ceded about 11 million acres of the Choctaw Nation (now Mississippi) in exchange for about 15 million acres in Oklahoma. Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, a state senator from Claiborne County, Mississippi, is credited with the founding of Itta Bena. Following several crop failures in the 1850s at his ancestral home in Claiborne County, Humphreys took a trip by river steamer up into the Yazoo wilderness to look for a new farming opportunity in the former Choctaw area. He found such an opportunity on Roebuck Lake, a stretch of old channel the river had discarded a few miles west of Greenwood, in what was then Sunflower County. Bringing a group of slaves up from his plantations during the winter, when boats could pass from the Yazoo into Roebuck, he directed them to begin the long task of clearing farmland from the overgrown bottomland. Longtime Claiborne County friends became interested in his project, and the first of them began to acquire land in the area two years later. Humphreys had established a permanent winter residence, “Lucknow,” in Claiborne County. He did not bring his family to his plantation until he completed the building of a substantial home in 1857, christened “Itta Bena,” the Choctaw words for “Home in the Woods.” The walls of Itta Bena were made from logs felled in clearing the plantation, plastered and painted. It was the earliest substantial residence built in the wild Yazoo country and was the center of activity for the plantation’s many hundred acres. The main portion of the original Humphreys home was still in use as a residence in 1954 (thought to be the home of Dr. B. B. Harper on Lakefront Street). Following the Civil War, Humphreys was elected as governor of Mississippi. As other settlers moved into the area, the village that grew up around the plantation was also called Itta Bena. The rate of growth increased after the Columbus and Greenville Railway was begun in 1888. Among the first to build stores were J. B. Humphreys, P. Cohen, and Uriah Ray. The first store was operated by H. M. Weber and a man named Long. The town’s first school, a one-room building, was built in 1888 and Miss Emma Cross served as the first teacher. The first high school was erected in 1905 across from the present-day First Baptist Church. The post office in Itta Bena was opened in 1918. On a march between Itta Bena and nearby Greenwood, coordinated by the SNCC but led by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael coined the rallying phrase “Black power!”. Byron de la Beckwith, widely known at that time as the un-convicted murderer of Medgar Evers, drove his truck by the marchers three times while the local police looked on. The town is also known due to its inclusion in the 2000 Coen Brothers movie O Brother, Where Art Thou. Baby Face Nelson asked the escaped convicts who were walking down a dusty dirt road if this was “the road to Itta Bena.” If you have any questions, please contact me. TERMS & CONDITIONS: Immediate PayPal or EBAY payment is required. Free shipping to the continental U.S. only. When you receive your item, PLEASE leave feedback (I will see it) and I will reciprocate feedback at that time. PLEASE view my other Ebay store items for related ephemera, antique documents, and paper collectibles at TEXASJOHNNYBOY EPEMERA. THANK YOU VERY MUCH and GOOD LUCK TO YOU.

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