Kezar Falls National Bank stock certificate 1945 (Maine)

Maine bank collectible. Common vignette of an American Bald Eagle with wings spread with a coastal town in the background. Issued and not cancelled. Dated 1945. Measures approximately 11 x 8 inches.

The Kezar Falls National Bank was established on August 8, 1910 Parsonsfield, Maine by George W. Towle and Allen Garner. issued serialized National Currency Bank Notes under Charter #9826.

Establishment:
Founded in 1910 on the first floor of the landmark Stanley Block building in Kezar Falls village (split across Parsonsfield and Porter, ME).

Merger:
The bank operated independently until September 29, 1972, when it merged with the Maine National Bank.

Later Successors:
Following subsequent transitions through Fleet Bank and Bangor Savings Bank up to 1996, the physical building eventually closed as a bank branch.

Kezar Falls is an unincorporated community on the Ossipee River in the towns of Porter and Parsonsfield in Oxford County, Maine.

Kezar Falls was incorporated as "Porter Kezar Falls Village Corporation in the Town of Porter" by the Maine State Legislature. A portion of Hiram, Maine also in Oxford County was added to the Porter Kezar Falls Village Corporation in 1913 as an amendment to Chapter 217 to increase the corporate limits of the Porter Kezar Falls Village Corporation.

Historically, there were two Kezar Falls Village Corporations: one at Porter and the other at Parsonsfield in York County, across the Ossipee River. However, the Parsonsfield Kezar Falls Village Corporation was formally repealed by the 107th Legislature of the State of Maine and accepted at Parsonsfield Town Meeting in 1975.

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