Neil Stevens with Oconee State Bank, Trevin Dye with JETRO and Beth Mathews with JapanFest

Neil Stevens/Oconee State Bank In the early 1900s, there were banks in all the small towns of Oconee County…Bishop, Bogart, Eastville, Farmington and Watkinsville. When the Depression came along in 1929, all the banks went broke and Oconee County was without a bank for the next 30 years. Farmers and small merchants had to travel […]