The Farmers State Bank and Trust Company
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YoSam.
N 39° 44.061 W 090° 13.792
15S E 737388 N 4401943
Growth of Ayers Bank to what it is today.
Waymark Code: WM3BC2
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 03/09/2008
Views: 8
Marker Erected By: Morgan County Historical Society and The Illinois State Historical Society.
Historic Register Erected by: Department of the Interior.
Recognition Plaque Erected by: City of Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission.
Marker Text:
THE FARMERS STATE BANK
AND TRUST COMPANY
The site of the Farmers State Bank and Trust Company Building, formerly known as the Ayers National Bank Building, has been associated with banking longer than any other site in the State of Illinois and possibly the entire old Northwest.
By 1832 David Ball Ayers, with the help of his Philadelphia connections was extending credit from this site to the residents of Morgan County. This building, which opened in 1913, housed the Ayers National Bank until the Bank's failure in 1932. The building was later purchased by the Farmers State Bank and Trust Company.
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