Columbus Bank and Trust Company

In the fall of 1888, a hard working employee at Eagle and Phenix Mills caught her skirt in a piece of machinery. As it ripped, her life savings fell to the ground. Learning that the lining of her skirt was the safest place to keep her valuables, factory executive G. Gunby Jordan offered to protect the money himself. He placed her hard earned savings in the Eagle and Phenix Mills vault. In 1888 Mr. Jordan formed a bank that would become Columbus Bank and Trust. This simple act of kindness and the security of that vault door was the beginning of a different kind of bank