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Takoma Park Bank, Takoma Park, MD: failed July 23, 1938

Takoma Park Bank in Takoma Park, Maryland, failed on July 23, 1938. It held $2 million in deposits.

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The FDIC's record

Closed
July 23, 1938
Type
Failure
How it was resolved
Purchase and assumption: another bank took over the deposits
Total deposits
$2,048,000
Charter
State nonmember bank (FDIC)
Insurance fund
FDIC

The FDIC record

Other bank failures in Maryland, 1936 to 1940

BankCityClosedAssetsDepositsEstimated costAcquirer
Savings Bank of NanticokeNanticokeOctober 4, 1940$190,000$159,000
The Hillsboro-Queen Anne Bank, Inc.HillsboroJanuary 21, 1939$249,000
The Harford BankBel AirDecember 31, 1938$893,000$669,000
Commercial Bank of MarylandFrederickJuly 1, 1938$1.4 million

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

Read from the FDIC's failures data (BankFind), last updated 2026-10-23. 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.