Photograph of Shawneetown Bank State Historic Site — Photograph by Russell Lee, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

State Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Shawneetown Bank State Historic Site is an historic bank building in Old Shawneetown, Illinois, and is the oldest structure in Illinois built specifically as a bank. A Greek Revival structure built in 1839-1841 in what was then called Shawneetown, it was the home of a series of banks into the 20th century.”
Wikipedia article Shawneetown Bank State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Gallatin County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Corner of Main St. and IL 13, Old Shawneetown, 62984
When was it listed? April 1972
Category. building
Township. Shawnee township
National Register reference number. 72000459 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of State Bank: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Delta Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gallatin County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tradewater Dredge 1 & 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gallatin County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Robert and John McKee Peeples Houses	0.1 miles	1983
	Camp Mather-Camp Logan	2.4 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000459 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gallatin County	All 4 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.