Bank - Port Royal National

Click On Image To Enlarge This building served as the Port Royal National Bank building until a new building was built just across Third Street. Sometime later this building would become the Port Royal Post Office. Contributed by rkohler3 on 9/5/09 - Image Year: 1900 View Additional Photos and Comments

The Port Royal Times of September 11, 1890 reported the following. The contract for the erection of the new building of the Port Royal Branch Bank has been awarded to Mr. William A. McCahren of Turbett Township.

Although it had operated as a branch bank earlier, in 1894 an independent bank was started by William C. Pomeroy, under the title of the Port Royal Bank. (Firm name Pomeroy & Co.) When it was granted a national charter in 1919 it became The Port Royal National Bank.

Although the bank building had been opened in 1890 at the southeast corner of Third and Market Streets, that building was abandoned in 1926 when the bank moved into this new building at the southwest corner of Third and Market Streets. The older building would eventually reopen as the Port Royal Post Office.

In time the Port Royal National Bank merged with the First National Bank of Port Royal and that combined bank merged with the Juniata Valley National Bank.

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	Contributed by rkohler3 on 3/4/13 - Image Year: 1920 This building was opened in 1926 as the Port Royal National Bank and become the Post Office after the new bank building was completed across Third Street.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 8/3/09 - Image Year: 1930 This building was opened in 1926 as the Port Royal National Bank. Eventually the bank would merge with the First National Bank and then the combined bank would be integrated into the Juniata Valley National Bank.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 8/19/12 - Image Year: 1928 This photo is of a Port Royal $5 National Bank Note that was signed by Darwin C. Pomeroy (bank cashier) and Samuel B. Crawford (bank president).
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 9/11/09 - Image Year: 1933 This photo is of a Port Royal National Bank Note that was signed by Darwin C. Pomeroy (bank cashier) and Samuel B. Crawford (bank president).
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 3/9/13 - Image Year: 1935 Bob Stimmel standing in front of the family funeral home. The Bashore Hardware is directly behind him. The Port Royal National Bank is to the left of the left of the hardware. (Photo submitted by Wayne Taylor)
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 8/3/09 - Image Year: 2009 This is how the building appeared in the Spring of 2009 and it is now operating as the Port Royal Branch of the Juniata Valley National Bank. Its exterior appearance has changed little over the last 80 years.
	Contributed by rkohler3 on 3/6/13 - Image Year: 1929 ADVERTISEMENT from the 1929 PRHS Yearbook.
	Contributed by ray on 3/4/13 - Image Year: 1940 ADVERTISEMENT for the Port Royal National Bank. (Submitted by Wayne Taylor)