Snyder National Bank

The bank has had two national charters. Records of national banks show the first, No. 7635, organized January 31, 1905, chartered March 7 and opened March 13, succeeding the private Snyder Bank. W. A. Fuller was president and F. J. Grayum the first cashier; Marshall Andrew Fuller was president from 1924. In 1934 a new national bank, charter 14270, was organized on August 27 and chartered September 27, succeeding the first and assuming its circulation. It became Community Bank of Snyder in November 2008 and merged into Oakwood Bank of Dallas on January 1, 2020.

What the plaque says

Snyder National Bank In 1890 F. J. Grayum began the Snyder Bank, a private institution, in his drugstore on the south side of the square. Although Snyder had no railroad and goods were shipped on wagons from Colorado City (25 mi. S), W. A. Fuller, a wealthy rancher, saw the need for a national bank to encourage business growth. Fuller and his associates bought out Grayum's bank. The Snyder National Bank opened on March 13, 1905, with Grayum serving on the first board of directors and as cashier. Fuller was president and E. W. Clark served as vice president. During the 1930s when many banks were closing, M. A. Fuller, who served as president from 1924-39, announced that he was bringing a plane loaded with cash into town. After unloading the sacks of money, Fuller invited the worried customers to withdraw their accounts. This dramatic move seemed to reassure the community and there was never a "run" on the bank. After operating for a short time from Grayum's Drugstore, the bank occupied several locations on the square before moving to this site in 1957. Through the years the bank has served as a stable financial force in the county. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Scurry County Museum — 2.6 mi
  Snyder's county museum on the Western Texas College campus, with the rifle used to shoot the white buffalo, an 1878 chuckwagon and the millionth barrel of the Canyon Reef oil boom.
• Heart of West Texas Museum — 23 mi
  Colorado City's museum in a restored downtown house, from a mammoth dug up at Lake Champion in 2001 to an Ice Age bison and the wartime telegrams sent to a local family.
• National WASP WWII Museum — 32 mi
  Hangar 1 at Avenger Field in Sweetwater, where the women of the WASP trained to fly every aircraft in the Army's arsenal in World War II, then waited thirty-three years to be called veterans.

More markers nearby

• Scurry County Courthouse Site and Building — steps away
• Scurry County — steps away
• County Named for Texas Confederate William R. Scurry 1821-1864 — steps away
• Scurry County's Canyon Reef Oil Field — steps away