Bank of Yazoo City Revenue and Competitors

Since our founding in 1876 to supply capital to the cotton industry, Bank of Yazoo has always stood behind our customer communities with unwavering strength, even as, time and time again, we have led the field in service enhancements. New branches when and where they were needed; our first drive through service in the fifties; internet banking in the nineties; we've stayed out front to keep all of our customers' needs covered. In 1876, a group of Yazoo area businessmen gathered in the home of Robert Clayton Shepherd, Yazoo City merchant and alderman. Their purpose: to discuss the formation of a bank to supply capital for the cotton industry, rebounding at last after the devastation of the Civil War. The recovery, while welcome, was also overwhelming for local merchants, unable to supply the necessary financing for all the goods required by farmers to increase production. New capital was urgently needed.