First Tennessee Bank

First Tennessee Bank is a Tennessee historical marker in Memphis, Shelby County.

Shelby Co., 8th S. Court St., Memphis

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Despite the hardships and divided loyalties of the Civil War, First National Bank of Memphis received Charter No. 336 from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on March 25, 1864. Renamed First Tennessee in 1971, the city's first federally chartered bank has been headquartered within blocks of its original 8 South Court Street location ever since. During the 1878 yellow fever epidemic, bookkeeper Charles Q. Harris single- handedly kept the bank open to serve customers and distribute relief funds to Memphians.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1855 · Arkansas (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1859 · Arkansas (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Arkansas. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Memphis. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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