1893
Commercial Travelers’ Savings Bank moves into eight-story equitable in downtown Atlanta, which becomes the South’s first “skyscraper”
1891
Georgia General Assembly grants charter for Commercial Travelers’ Savings Bank in Atlanta, which eventually became SunTrust’s predecessor Trust Company of Georgia.
1872
Alpheus Branch and Thomas Jefferson Hadley join forces to form Branch and Hadley, the company that ultimately became BB&T.