Archer City

The First National Bank of Archer City

Archer City is in Archer County, about 15 miles south of Wichita Falls on TX 25.
That is the approximate SE corner of the Panhandle.
Archer City is also the home of Larry McMurtry and
The Last Picture Show.

Although this building does not have an original "BANK" inscribed on it,
it does exhibit the expected age and the ornate gravitas of a bank, and it continues to house a bank.
Plus, there are no other buildings competing with it.

The First National Bank of Archer City, charter 5711, opened February 12, 1901, and stopped printing money December 31, 1904.
Its output consists of $12,000 in 1882 Brown Backs.
Six hundred dollars were unredeemed, and there are no notes from this bank in the census.

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