"A picture of Mesquite Street (in 2008: NE 1st Avenue) looking south is illustrated in this picture. The drug store in the picture is the C. F. Yeager Drugstore on the SE corner of Mesquite Street and NE 1st Street. A bank is also visible at the next corner up from the Yeager Drug which is the SE corner of Mesquite and Hubbard Streets."

 

The First National Bank of Mesquite was chartered on February 27, 1902, and continued printing to the end of the National Bank period.

The bank issued 1902 Red Seals, Date Backs and Plain Backs plus 1929 Types 1 & 2.
The census shows thirteen notes: one 1902 Red Seal, two 1902 Plain backs, eight 1929 Type 1's, and two Type 2's. The Red Seal is in the Philpott-Moody Collection.

This 1929 Type 1 sold at a Heritage auction September, 2019, for $1,320.

[Image Heritage Auctions]

"Mesquite, TX - $20 1929 Ty. 1 The First NB Ch. # 6140 PMG About Uncirculated 55.
A charming Dallas County $20 even if a pinhole has been observed by PMG. This is a new note for the census and is now the highest graded small size on this charter number outside of a lone serial number 1 example. The bank officers are Cashier E.S. McKenzie and President J.D. Bruton. They served together in these positions only during the year of 1931. You will find a Series 1929 Type 1 $10 on this bank with a different bank officer combination in our internet only session for Nationals in this auction."