Columbus State Bank

The plaque reads the building as a record of reuse; the bank inside has its own long record. Federal deposit-insurance files date its establishment to August 19, 1919, and its main office still stands at 1102 Milam Street, where it operates as a state-chartered bank. A drive-in facility on Spring Street followed in April 1981. On January 1, 2025, it absorbed Hill Bank & Trust Co. of Weimar, the next town west, and kept that bank's Main Street office open as a branch.

What the plaque says

Columbus State Bank History is preserved in this structure. At founding (1919), this institution, in erecting its bank, retained a wall of 1857 Boedecker Building that had housed many ventures, including city's first bank (1875). In 1969 rebuilding, Columbus State Bank again used some parts of prior structures. (1973)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Stafford Opera House — steps away
  A cattleman's bank and theater of 1886 on the Columbus square, in a river town Sam Houston burned in 1836 and a county marked by a long feud and a 1935 lynching.
• Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge — 16 mi
  Ten thousand acres of native coastal prairie northeast of Eagle Lake, kept for a critically endangered grouse, many of whose birds are hatched in captivity and released here.
• Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church (Dubina) — 18 mi
  The church of Texas's first Czech settlement, under a sky-blue painted ceiling that was whitewashed in the 1950s and brought back from faint traces by its own parishioners.
• St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ammannsville) — 20 mi
  A wooden Carpenter Gothic church built in 1919 after storm and fire took two before it, its dusty-rose interior painted by an artist whose name was lost for decades.

More markers nearby

• Colorado County, City of Columbus — steps away
• William Menefee — steps away
• 1890 Cornerstone Ceremony — steps away
• The Rangers of Austin's Colony — steps away