The stately Hemry & Tuggle Building on the corner of Main and Grand Street once housed the First National Bank of Gallatin, MO. Also show beneath the city’s brick water tower in this photo are other business buildings comprising the south side of the square.
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First National Bank of Gallatin, MO (date unknown)
First National Bank at the corner of Main and Grand Streets, south side of Gallatin square (date unknown). The inscription atop the cupola reads “Hemry & Tuggle 1888.” Business offices on the second floor included a corner office with “Tague” printed on a north facing window.
This printed photograph shows the clerical work area for bank tellers serving customers at the First National Bank of Gallatin when the bank was located on the south side of the town square, at 112 South Main Street. (date unknown)
Customers did business at the First National Bank of Gallatin using this lobby when the bank was located on the south side of the town square, at 112 South Main Street. (date unknown)
There was a time when currency was issued locally according to each bank’s charter. Here’s an example of a $20 bill issued by the First National Bank of Gallatin, MO.
Here’s the back side of the same $20 bill issued by the First National Bank of Gallatin, MO.
This sketch offers many details of what once stood at the south side of the Gallatin business square. The corner building, “Hemry & Tuggle 1886”, housed the Daviess County Savings Association. Next door was the Etter-Randall Dry Goods Company promoting itself as O.P.C.H. (date unknown)
- 1922 Robbery at the First National Bank of Gallatin. In November, 1922, six armed men robbed the First National Bank of Gallatin then located on the south side of the square. They used a large quantity of nitroglycerin in four explosions which badly damaged the vault, steel safe, front of the bank building, and much of the interior fixtures. Several shots were fired during the hour the bandits were in town. Nightwatchman John Chamberlin, Mayor J.H. Tate, and hotelman Frank Woodruff were each slightly wounded from buckshot fired by the criminals. Most of the telephone and telegraph lines were cut. Stolen was approximately $6,000 plus bonds and notes. All of the gang escaped and were never identified.
The First National Bank of Gallatin modified its facility at the corner of West Grand and Main Street before moving across to the northeast corner of the Gallatin square. The Farmers Store owned and operated by E.H. Elbert, used its storefront for retail marketing messages. (date unknown)
A modern street sign contrasts with the older building which once housed the First National Bank of Gallatin, MO, when the bank was located at the southeast corner of the business square. Shown standing is John Witten. (date unknown)
Groundbreaking for the construction of a new facility for First National Bank of Gallatin involved the following, from left: Charles Belshe, ?, President Robert Paul, ?, Bob Owings, Doyle Biner, ?, and ?.
Construction of the First National Bank of Gallatin is underway at 121 West Jackson Street. The 2-story building in background at left housed a clothes cleaning business; just north on Market Street was a lumber yard.
First National Bank operated from this location at the northwest corner of the square until 1999 when Northern Missouri Bancshares, Inc., purchased 1005 of the stock of First National Bancshares, Inc., the owner of the First National Bank of Gallatin.
The First National Bank of Gallatin began offering drive-up banking service before the new building was even built, using this temporary lunch wagon as a drive-up “facility.”
The new bank building was promoted in a variety of ways. Here “bank customers” representing yesteryear indicate everyone was going to the new bank, as the banner on the covered wagon declares: “Rogers Ferry to First National Bank or Bust”
New construction featured a drive-though service with a walk-in counter through the glass doorway left. The covered wagon blocked off traffic until construction was completed and was used during grand opening activities.
First National Bank opens for business at 121 West Jackson Street in Gallatin, MO
For a period of time, about the only public meeting room for community events was provided by First National Bank in the bank’s basement. This photo was taken during a University of Missouri Extension meeting. (circa 1970s)
