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The Watertown Savings Bank’s next branch
was opened in Adams at the corner of East
Church and Wardwell Streets. At first, WSB
started providing services from a fully-equipped
bank trailer in 1966 because the new plaza that
would house the branch office was still under
construction.

Although the Adams branch operations
started inside a trailer, the staff was able to offer
many of the same banking services as the WSB
main office. On Jan. 3, 1968, the new Adams
branch was completed. After several years in that
location, the Adams branch office relocated into a
new building on Route 11 in 2008.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Watertown In 1999, WSB opened a branch in Sackets
Savings Bank also operated a branch office on Harbor after Key Bank had closed and left the
Coffeen Street for many years, but later moved community. But this would not be the last branch
that office into a new facility off Arsenal Street to open, as the bank would continue expanding
in 2001, known as its Commerce Park Drive throughout Jefferson County as it entered the
location. next century.

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