Letohatchee, Alabama

Letohatchee, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Letohatchee Post Office
Letohatchee Post Office
Letohatchee is located in Alabama
Letohatchee
Letohatchee
Letohatchee is located in the United States
Letohatchee
Letohatchee
Coordinates: 32°07′47″N 86°29′09″W / 32.12972°N 86.48583°W / 32.12972; -86.48583
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyLowndes
Elevation
322 ft (98 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code334
GNIS feature ID121509[1]

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.

In 1900 and 1917, whites committed a total of seven lynchings of blacks, half of the total 14 in Lowndes County from 1877 to 1950. [2] In 1900 they killed all four members of the Jim Cross family. [3]

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