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Acknowledgements |
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Original
brochure produced by Center City Development Corporation.
Brochure
Committee:
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Lynn L.
Johnstone
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Greg Bottorff
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Julie Dishman
Special
thanks to:
Morrisson-Reeves Library Staff:
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Sue King,
Archivist
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Doris Ashbrook,
Reference Services
Wayne County
Historical Museum:
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Jim Harlan
Director
This project
was made possible by a grant from the Richmond Urban Enterprise
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Earlham College
EDC of Wayne Co.
First Bank Richmond
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Historic Architecture Downtown Richmond:
A Walking Tour
Chase
Bank
First National Bank
630 East Main Street
Italianate (1873)
In 1863, James E. Reeves, his brother Mark Reeves, and eleven other
businessmen, formed the First National Bank. It was the seventeenth such
institution chartered in the nation and the second in Indiana. It could
have been the first bank chartered in the entire United States, but the
train that James Reeves took to Washington, D. C. was overrun in
Maryland by Mosby’s guerilla band, Southern raiders carrying the Civil
War into the North. The train was delayed long enough to deprive First
National Bank of being the first registered in the nation.
James E. Reeves served as President of First National Bank from
1863-1902.
Note:
This is the web-based incarnation of a brochure originally published in
2010. While the history is still
very valuable, other information may no longer be accurate.
Information updated by WayNet will be listed in this maroon color.
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Walking Tour Information: Published in March 2010
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this
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