Note: The following is part of a series of columns looking at the establishment and evolution of the banking system in Georgia and Bulloch County. America's first savings bank opened in 1816: The Provident Institution for Savings in Boston. The first savings bank in Georgia was the Augusta Savings Bank.
Bulloch History with Roger Allen: Savings banks change banking landscape in Georgia
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