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The Point Pleasant National Bank, Point Pleasant, WV: failed March 7, 1939

The Point Pleasant National Bank in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, failed on March 7, 1939. It held $461,000 in assets and $410,000 in deposits at its last report. By assets it was the 8th largest of 60 banks closed or assisted in 1939.

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The FDIC's record

Closed
March 7, 1939
Type
Failure
How it was resolved
Payout: the FDIC paid insured depositors directly
Total assets
$461,000
Total deposits
$410,000
Charter
National bank (supervised by the OCC)
Insurance fund
FDIC

The FDIC record

Other bank failures in West Virginia, 1937 to 1941

BankCityClosedAssetsDepositsEstimated costAcquirer
Kermit State BankKermitNovember 1, 1938$120,000$67,000
Farmers Bank & Trust CompanyCharles TownAugust 31, 1937$1.3 million$1.4 million

All bank failures in 1939 · All bank failures in West Virginia · 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.