In many ways, it was like any other day in Copiah County in the early 1890's. Young boys fished for bass and bream from the banks of Copiah Creek and Bayou Pierre. Farmers tended to their land and cattle, while smiling merchants greeted the customers as they came to town in horse-drawn buggies for their weekly shopping visit. Yet, something significant happened on that otherwise lazy, Southern day. Under the leadership of J.A. Covington, the Bank of Hazlehurst, later to become Copiah Bank, N.A., was officially established. And on that day, a bond was formed between the bank and its community that continues to this day, over 119 years later. This is a celebration of the past century and of the relationship that has always existed between Copiah Bank, N.A., and the people of Copiah County: a celebration of you and us, then and now.