A Big “First” at The First
I recently opened a bank account at The First Bank of Monticello. I really enjoyed the experience. This is my first-ever bank account. While I was there, an employee named Miss Hannah Morgan showed me a real safe that weighed 6000 pounds, and an old calculator. I got to touch them both and I got to open the safe! I learned that the safe was called a “Cannon Ball” safe and that the safe and the calculator were both bought for the bank in 1906.
A little history about this building is that it