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The history of Georgia in the United States of America spans pre-Columbian time to the present-day U.S. state of Georgia. The area was inhabited by Native American tribes for thousands of years. A modest Spanish presence was established in the late 16th century, mostly centered on Catholic missions. The Spanish had largely withdrawn from the ...
Until 1964, Georgia's state government had the longest unbroken record of single-party dominance, by the Democratic Party, of any state in the Union. This record was established largely due to the disenfranchisement of most blacks and many poor whites by the state in its constitution and laws in the early 20th century. Some elements, such as ...
In 1906, Lane and his associates purchased Southern Bank of Georgia enabling them to merge the two banks as the new C&S Bank. [4] The newly merged banks were officially named the Citizens and Southern Bank of Georgia. In 1922 Citizens and Southern absorbed Central Bank and Trust Corp., the bank founded by Coca-Cola co-founder Asa Griggs Candler ...
Bank of America building in Atlanta was for years owned by NationsBank. In 1998, it acquired BankAmerica Corporation of San Francisco in what was the largest bank merger in American history at the time. Although NationsBank was the nominal survivor, the merged bank took the better-known Bank of America name, and operates under Bank of America's ...
Bank of America has formed a partnership with the United States Department of Defense creating a newly chartered bank DOD Community Bank [106] ("Community Bank") providing full banking services to military personnel at 68 branches and ATM locations [107] on U.S. military installations in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base Cuba, Diego Garcia, Germany ...
Founded in Tokyo, moved to the U.S. in 1958. Defunct in 2021. 1667 Seaside Inn: Kennebunkport, Maine: Hotel [8] [14] [15] 1670 Hudson's Bay Company: New York City: Retail [16] Founded in England by Royal Charter, headquartered today in Toronto and New York City: 1673 White Horse Tavern: Newport, Rhode Island: Restaurant [8] [17] [18] 1680 ...
The new state of Georgia was a member of the Second Continental Congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the tenth state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24, 1778, [18] and the fourth state to be admitted to the Union under the U.S. Constitution, on January 2, 1788.
A SouthState Bank in Hiawassee, Georgia. SouthState Bank, based in Winter Haven, Florida, is an American bank based in Florida and a subsidiary of SouthState Corporation, a bank holding company. As of December 31, 2018, the company had 168 branches in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Virginia. [1]