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I can assure you
it is safer to keep
your money in a
reopened bank than under the mattress. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fireside Chat 1933 to $526,200,000, partially because of a drop in loans. The effect of the crash on the national economy and the banking industry in general was devastating.
But here in Rappahannock County, things were somewhat better. Rappahannock Bank President Wood, one of the county’s progressive farmers and fruit growers, was highly respected and under his watch the bank stayed solvent during the Great Depression. See 1920s-1940s, Page 9
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