Itawamba Community College

The college grew out of Itawamba County Agricultural High School, organized in 1920. Trustees added two years of college work in 1941, but the war delayed building. In March 1948 the boards of supervisors and school boards of Itawamba, Lee and Monroe counties agreed to back Itawamba Junior College, which offered first-year courses in 1948-49. Pontotoc County joined in 1953 and Chickasaw County in 1972, and the name changed in 1987. A Tupelo campus began in July 1963 in vacant buildings and shops from local businesses, and a 65,500-square-foot complex opened in 1966.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Elvis Presley Birthplace — 15 mi
  The two-room house in East Tupelo where Elvis Presley was born in 1935, with a museum and the church building the family attended, set near the vanished Black neighborhoods where he first heard the blues.
• Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center — 17 mi
  The parkway's headquarters and official visitor center near Tupelo, with a film, a small museum of the Old Trace and the surviving New Deal houses of the Tupelo Homesteads.
• Tupelo National Battlefield — 19 mi
  A one-acre park on Main Street marking the July 1864 battle of Tupelo, a Union victory that kept Nathan Bedford Forrest away from Sherman's supply line, with Black soldiers among the defenders.
• Chickasaw Village Site — 19 mi
  A Chickasaw village on a remnant of the Black Belt Prairie beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, with house outlines marked on the ground and signs that speak in Chickasaw voices.

More markers nearby

• Fulton — steps away
• Van Buren — 5.9 mi
• Tammy Wynette — 9.0 mi
• The Chickasaw Nation — 11 mi