1807
Branch Planter's Bank of the State of
Georgia for two hundred shares;
at Milledgeville, under the superintendence
of
Zachariah Lamar, Archibald M. Devereux and
Jett Thomas
1819
Branch of Darien Bank
opened in 1819, closed in 1841
1828
Central Bank of Georgia incorporated
1828
ended 1842. Owned and operated by
the State of Georgia
1835
The Bank
of Milledgeville
Stockholders Seaton Grantland,
Farish Carter,
William Sanford, Green H. Jourdan, Thomas
Moughon, Charles Malone,
Nichols and Demming, Richard K. Hines, Thomas
Ragland, William D. Jarratt,
Tomlinson Fort, Owen H. Kenan, Joseph Cooper,
Michael J. Kenan,
Nathan M'Gehee, Thomas B. Stubbs, Miller
Grieve, Warren Jourdan,
John W. Gordon, Charles C. Mills, A. Jarratt,
Lorenzo D. Buckner,
Charles W. Howard and F. V. Delaunay.
1869
Merchants and Planters Bank of Milledgeville
Stockholders: P. M. Compton, Sam. McComb,
L. Carrington,
L. H. Briscoe, A. H. Kenan, C. H. Wright,
M. Waitzfelder, T. F. Newel
1888
Merchants' Bank
Stockholders: Samuel Walker, P. M. Compton,
P. J. Cline, R. W. Roberts,
T. O. Powell, T. B. Lamar, L. J. Lamar and
Robert Whitfield
1898
Merchants
and Farmers Bank (now Century Bank and Trust)
According to their website "The Bank's first
president was Samuel Evans, a native
North Carolinian. Sam served during the
Civil War as Jefferson Davis' personal bodyguard.
After the war, Sam moved his family to Milledgeville
where he became engaged in the manufacture
of plug tobacco laced with Cuban molasses.
He also owned a grocery store,
a cotton warehouse and general supply business.
Sam, along with the Bank's
cashier Madison McGraw, ran the Bank
until 1902 when Sam resigned due to poor health
and Madison left to open a dry goods store."
Eileen Babb McAdams copyright 2002