Hidalgo County Bank and Trust Company
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PeterNoG
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This Texas Historical Marker is on the south side of the First National Bank (former Hidalgo County Bank and Trust Company), 301 South Texas Avenue, Mercedes, Texas.
Waymark Code: WMJQP4
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/19/2013
Views: 4
Marker Title: Hidalgo County Bank and Trust Company
Address:
City: Mercedes
County: Hidalgo
Subject Codes: banks, bankers, banking topics
Year Marker Erected: 1982
Designations: na
Marker Location: 301 S. Texas Avenue, Mercedes
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 2469
Marker Text:
The oldest Hidalgo County bank still in operation, this institution opened in 1907 in a frame house on Third Street. Incorporators of the firm were area leaders J. M. Johnson, Sr., who served as the first president, his son J. M. Johnson, Jr., William M. Price and S. P. Silver, all of Mercedes; John Closner of Hidalgo; and Walter A. McNeil of Santa Maria. Sound leadership helped the Hidalgo County Bank and Trust Company survive the economic depression of the 1930s and to become a leader in the development of the Rio Grande Valley area.
(1982)
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