Charleston business, listed 1854
Farmers' and Exchange Bank of Charleston
Bank — capital $1,000,000
A listing proves a year, not a span. A house in the 1854 book and the 1858 Review was there in 1854 and in 1858. The years between are not evidenced here, and nothing on this page should be read as saying the firm traded through them.
1854
- Bank — capital $1,000,000Southern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser, 1854, p. 362W. M. Martin, President; Wm. C. Breese, Cashier
On Wikipedia
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- Farmers' and Exchange Bank an article about this house or its principal — the bank the 1854 card names; its East Bay building, finished 1854, still stands
Built in 1853–54, it is an architecturally distinctive building, with Moorish Revival features rarely seen in the United States.
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