November 18, 2020

In 1903, William F. Heathman established the Clintonville Farmers Bank. Heathman, then in his 60s, was a farmer, county supervisor, postmaster, and Civil War veteran. As I drove through Clintonville on a gray February morning last year and saw the pocket-sized brick building with a distinctive parapet, I knew immediately it was an old bank. (read more)