[1] The bank lent $350,000, more than two-thirds of its capital, to the United States Government during the War of 1812.
[1] The bank was initially located on Capitol Hill but in 1828, it moved to a building on 6th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.
[1] In 1821, the bank launched a "savings fund" offering depositors a rate of 4%.
[2] In 1949, the United Mine Workers acquired a 76% ownership interest in the bank.
[6] In 1991, the FDIC sued John J. Mason, chairman of the bank, for failing to repay a $9 million loan made to him by the bank in April 1987 and for transferring nearly $5 million of assets into an account that officials could not touch.