September 7, 2007

By the turn of the twentieth century, the town of Paragould (Greene County) was a growing business center in northeast Arkansas. By 1910, the town was home to six banks, one of which, the Security Bank, is shown in this photograph. While the bank survived the bank runs of the early days of the Great Depression, it was reorganized in 1930.

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