First Bank and Trust Co.

1922

Built as a bank, it operated until 11.20.1930

when it closed. Reorganized by local

investors, it reopened 2 weeks later as

State Trust Co., merged later with

Northwestern Bank, then First Union Bank

until 1998. Designed by prominent

architect Erle Stillwell.

Marker is on North Main Street ...

Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company

(Obverse)

Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company is the oldest, continuously operated African-American bank in the United States. Formerly known as the One-cent Savings Bank and Trust Company and organized for the uplift of African Americans, it opened on January 16, ...

Augusta National Bank Building

This engraving of the southwest corner of downtown Staunton’s busiest intersection, Beverley and Augusta Streets, dates from about 1885. In the center is the Augusta National Bank building surrounded by older, smaller structures, most of which were rebuilt or remodeled ...

Battle of Chusto-Talasah or "Caving Banks"

The Battle of "Caving Banks" was fought on Dec. 9, 1861 between 1500 Texas and Indian calvarymen under Confederate Col. D.H. Cooper and 2500 Loyal Creeks and Cherokees enroute to Kansas with Chief Opothle Yahola. The struggle centered on a ...

History of the Banks House

The Banks House

This upper middle-class dwelling is one of the earliest surviving structures in Dinwiddie County. Unfortunately, the name of original builder has been lost to time. The architectural evidence suggests that the house evolved in four phases between 1750 ...

The Banks House

Pamplin Historical Park

Welcome to the Banks House. This 18th-century home was typical of other upper-middle class farms in Dinwiddie County, except for 24 hours on April 2-3, 1865 when it became military headquarters for Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. From ...

Industrial Bank of Washington

2000 11th Street, NW

Industrial Bank stands as a testament to the Black business movement that began in the 1880s in downtown Washington and spread to the U Street area by the 1900s. Industrial Bank was the only Black-owned financial ...

Erastus Fairbanks Snow

Missionary, Founder of St. George, President of the Cotton Mission.

Erastus Snow was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont in 1818. He entered the Salt Lake Valley on July 21, 1847, in advance of the fist company of Mormon Pioneers. He was ...