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Bank of Eton, Eton, GA: failed October 12, 1938

Bank of Eton in Eton, Georgia, failed on October 12, 1938. It held $29,000 in deposits.

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The FDIC's record

Closed
October 12, 1938
Type
Failure
How it was resolved
Purchase and assumption: another bank took over the deposits
Total deposits
$29,000
Charter
State nonmember bank (FDIC)
Insurance fund
FDIC

The FDIC record

Other bank failures in Georgia, 1936 to 1940

BankCityClosedAssetsDepositsEstimated costAcquirer
The Bank of LeslieLeslieSeptember 18, 1940$141,000$113,000
The Claxton State BankClaxtonJuly 20, 1940$223,000$162,000
Chattooga County BankSummervilleJuly 13, 1937$265,000$205,000

All bank failures in 1938 · All bank failures in Georgia · The full failed bank list

Read from the FDIC's failures data (BankFind), last updated 2026-10-24. Assets and deposits are as of the last report before failure; the estimated cost is the FDIC's latest estimate of the loss to its insurance fund and changes as the receivership winds down. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0.