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Branch banking reached Eatonton in 1819 when Savannah's Bank of the State of Georgia opened an office here. The institution failed in 1866; the surviving cashier's brick house served as a family home for nearly a century before its 1962 demolition.
Branch Bank of the State of Georgia at Eatonton is a historical marker in Eatonton, Putnam County, erected in 1977. It is one of 21 historical markers documented in Putnam County, among 34 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.3255, -83.3882 near Eatonton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The March to the Sea, Putnam County, and Putnam County Court House.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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