First National Bank of Floydada

The bank's town was laid out in 1890 by M. C. Williams on 640 acres given by James B. and Caroline Price of Jefferson City, Missouri, and first called Floyd City. The post office renamed it Floydada to avoid confusion with Floyd in Hunt County. Some say the name was meant to be Floydalia and was garbled on its way to Washington; others say it joins the county's name with that of James Price's mother, Ada, or honors Caroline Price's parents, Floyd and Ada. A newspaper, the Texas Kicker, appeared briefly in 1890.

What the plaque says

First National Bank of Floydada The James B. Posey Bank, established in Floydada in the 1890s, became the Floyd County Bank in 1900 when L.T. Lester joined Posey as a partner. In 1903, with the granting of a federal charter, the name changed once again to First National Bank. Lester served as first president, and the original stockholders included Posey, Lester, Columbus Surginer, Will W. Nelson, R. C. Andrews, J. R. Burrus, and John N. Farris, who succeeded Lester as president in 1911. The bank has occupied this site since 1912, and throughout its history has played an important part in Floyd County's development. (1990)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum — 23 mi
  Crosbyton's museum of Blanco Canyon, built in 1958 as a copy of Hank Smith's Rock House, and the place to learn the canyon's 1871 fight between Mackenzie's cavalry and Quanah's Quahadi Comanche.

More markers nearby

• Organization of Floyd County — steps away
• Dolphin Ward Floyd — steps away
• Commercial Hotel — steps away
• Floydada Chapter No. 31, Order of the Eastern Star — steps away