Historic Lynchburg Bank Checks

Cancelled checks drawn on Lynchburg, Virginia banks in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, scanned front and back and read in full. Lynchburg's banks, the Lynchburg National Bank, the First National Bank of Lynchburg, and their neighbors, moved the money of a rebuilding tobacco and railroad town: merchants, attorneys, and families paid by check, and in the decades after the Civil War every check carried a two-cent federal revenue stamp. Each check below is documented with its bank, date, payee, amount, signer, and endorsements.