AccessUnited: History

A Tradition of Service to Our Customers and Communities

United Bank has a proud heritage of providing quality customer service and offering innovative, yet sensible financial solutions for its customers. Our commitment to quality service goes beyond our customers to a real interest and concern for serving our communities at large.

Originally chartered as The Bank of Zebulon - Zebulon, Georgia, in 1905, United Bank has prospered and grown into a full service financial institution, offering a range of services from traditional banking to Internet securities trading. Today United Bank has eleven branches in the area south of Metro Atlanta from Griffin in the north to Barnesville and Thomaston in the south. The proximity of this area to the Atlanta Airport (42 miles to the north) and its convenient location between Interstate highways 75 and 85 to the east and west respectively has created a climate of growth and prosperity for our communities and United Bank.

A few of the milestones in the history of United Bank:

1903	The Bank of Zebulon opens as a branch of the Barnesville Banking Company.
1905	The Bank of Zebulon is chartered as a commercial bank by the State of Georgia.
1935	The Bank of Zebulon is admitted to membership in the newly created Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as the 172nd member of the FDIC.
1972	The Bank of Zebulon and its owners and management work with citizens of Lamar County to establish Lamar State Bank in Barnesville, Georgia.
1981	Lamar State Bank and The Bank of Zebulon join together to create United Bank Corporation as their holding company.
1983	United Bank Corporation begins internal data processing for its subsidiary banks.
1986	Lamar State Bank and The Bank of Zebulon change their names to United Bank.
1987	United Bank establishes its own mortgage division to offer permanent, long term home loans.
1990	United Bank Corporation purchases First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Griffin and creates United Bank in Griffin, Georgia.
1994	United Bank opens its first grocery store branch, providing extended hours service Monday through Saturday.
1996	United Bank builds a call center and offers full customer service support from 7:00 a.m. through 11:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
1997	United Bank establishes an Investment division to provide investment advice and convenience for its customers.
1998	United Bank acquires and converts the Thomaston office of NationsBank, N.A. into United Bank's Thomaston division.
1998	United Bank offers home banking, Internet banking and Internet connection services to its customers.
1998	United Bank offers deep discount Internet securities trading to its customers.
2001	Centralized Human Resources Department located in Zebulon.
2002	United Bank opens office in Thomaston Wal-mart. Training program implemented with Training Coordinator. Checking account applications accepted online.
2004	United Bank opens a new division and it's thirteenth office in Madison, Georgia.
2007	United Bank opens a new division and it's fourteenth office in Covington, Georgia.
2007	United Bank opens a new office in Covington Wal-mart.
2008	United Bank acquires and converts offices of First Georgia Community Bank into United Bank's Jackson Division, Covington 278 Office and Locust Grove Ingles Office.

United Bank's style of service can best be summed up in its Mission Statement and Service Philosophy, a framed copy of which hangs in each facility.