Corner of Highland and Eau Gallie Blvd.
The First State Bank building was open for business on the south side of Eau Gallie Boulevard in 1883. One day in 1896, the cashier of the First State Bank was seen boarding a northbound train with two large suitcases. He was never heard from again, nor was any of the bank's cash found when the directors went to open the bank the next morning.
The large brick building on the southeast corner of Highland and Eau Gallie Blvd. was the State Bank of Eau Gallie, built in 1925. South of the bank, in the middle of the block, was the airdrome theater which was a tin building - hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
Marker can be reached from the intersection of Highland Avenue and Florida Road 518.
Courtesy hmdb.org
