First Bank of United States restoration has been a long time ... "The story goes, a shopkeeper from Philadelphia travels to Baltimore, and they have a bank note for the bank of Pennsylvania ...

In September, 1830, Richard Allen and other free blacks issued a call "on behalf of the Coloured Citizens of Philadelphia, and addressed to their brethren throughout the U. States, inviting them ...

But the Bank ... the United States with a $10 million capital (then five times more than all other American banks combined) and the ability to issue paper money. It would be based in Philadelphia ...