The Citizens Bank was a major actor in the building of the community.  The bank furnished the money to build over 85 percent of the houses in the city by 1914.   The Follansbee Brothers received cash from the Citizens Bank for its pay rolls all through the panic of 1907-1909 at a time when other plants were compelled to pay in script.   The location of the Citizens Bank of Follansbee was in the historic building still standing at the corner of Ohio and Main streets.  Its lasting symbol was a grand standing clock that kept customers on time as they entered the Bank.

• Mill Towns Review,  “Citizens Bank,” July 10, 1914, front page.

1914 Mill Towns Review newspaper ad for Citizens Bank building on the WWI threat in Europe.

Actual photo of bank as it looks today