Waynesboro Savings Bank - Waynesboro, GA

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: savings bank
Start Date: August 15, 1926
Location: Waynesboro, Georgia (33.090, -82.016)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 46bb09a1

Response Measures

None

Description

Article (Macon Telegraph, dateline Aug 15, 1926) reports Waynesboro Savings Bank temporarily suspended Monday morning; mentions Bankers Trust Company reorganizing and a merger with liabilities taken over. OCR is poor; interpreted 'temporarily' and 'merged' language to indicate the bank suspended and was being merged/taken over (permanent closure). No explicit run is described.

Events (1)

1. August 15, 1926 Suspension

Cause Details: Suspension associated with reorganization and merger overseen/handled by Bankers Trust Company; liabilities to be taken over.
Newspaper Excerpt: Waynesboro Savings Bank temporarily Monday morning. suspension by Bankers Trust Company have already reorganizing which time the banks merged.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. August 17, 1926 The Macon Telegraph Macon, GA

Article from The Macon Telegraph, August 17, 1926

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Article Text

TWO BANKS ARE CLOSED AYNESBORO. Ga., Aug. 15. Citizens Bank Waynes boro and Waynesboro Savings Bank temporarily Mon day morning. suspension by Bankers Trust Company have already reorganizing which time the banks merged. that the liabilities will be taken of. LITTLE WILLIAMS DIES Ga., Aug. daughter Mrs. Williams, of Forsyth, died o'elock this illness Interment will be in Forsyth the Methodist church She by her par and an infant by her Mr. and Mrs. of and her maternal grandfather, E. W. of Barnesville.