One started in the small Caroline County town of Bowling Green, the other in a Maryland tobacco-farming village that was a haven for free Black people, but their merger completed this week has created a $38.7 billion banking giant.
Richmond-based Atlantic Union Bankshares‘ $1.3 billion acquisition of Sandy Spring Bank brings Atlantic Union a much bigger presence in Northern Virginia and metropolitan Washington, D.C.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
