You’ll see banks called “First National Bank of X”, or the “First Baptist Church of Y”. A bank or church, with the exact same name, will also exist somewhere else. I live and have traveled all over the US (specifically the Bible Belt) for years now and I’ve noticed this trend.
What gives? Maybe the answer is really obvious and I can’t put it together.
Edit: How come you almost never see the “Second National Bank/Church of X/Y”?
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There have been and still are some second, third, fourth etc. banks in various places around the country, but a combination of name changes and mergers and whatnot made a lot of old bank names go away. Besides that, a lot of places with a first bank never were big enough to support a second or anything beyond.
The city I live in has multiple Christian Science branch churches and they are all numbered in order, but the first, second, and sixth have all closed. The remaining ones keep their original names of third through fifth.
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