Banking history | The Northeast Georgian, Cornelia, Georgia

Town of Mt. Airy’s historic downtown, bank

Old ledgers, checkbooks and loan cards from the Bank of Mt. Airy sit next to a bank bag from Cornelia Bank from around the same era. Banking artifacts in the Mt. Airy museum date back to 1917. (Zach Taylor/Staff)

By Zach Taylor M t. Airy was a popular railroad and mountain vacation town with a bustling economy and million-dollar views in the late 1800s, to the extent that artist John Kol...

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