Pathfinder Bank history

1874 – Bank opens its new building, which is the main office to this day.

1894 – Bank's assets total $1 million.

1906 – Installation of Burroughs adding machine marking the beginning of the automation of the bank's operations.

1911 – The bank purchased its first typewriter and change machine.

1914 – Due to WWI, the bank invests funds into Liberty Bonds.

1940 – Bank joins the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

1962 – Bank began to study the desirability of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs).

1967 – Bank opens new branch in Oswego Plaza Shopping Center.

1970 – A walk-up window opened in the bank's main office entrance.

1978 – Grand opening of Mexico Branch on October 16, 1978.

1986 – Computerization of all savings accounts, mortgages, personal loans, and other transactions completed.

1987 – Plaza Branch is built to replace the older facilities at the Oswego Plaza.

1994 – Bank purchases the Fulton and Oswego locations of Columbia Banking Federal Savings and Loan, increasing branch totals to five.

1995 – Oswego City Savings Bank becomes a stock held institution with an initial public offering of $7.50.

1997 – Bank introduces first off-site ATM at Sunrise Foods in Mexico.

1999 – Bank's website is introduced as www.pathfinderbank.com.

2000 – Oswego City Savings Bank officially changes its name to Pathfinder Bank on November 29, 2000.

2001 – Pathfinder Bank launches eSolutions by Pathfinder in September 2001 providing convenient online banking and bill pay access to its customers.

2002 – Pathfinder Bank announces the purchase of Cayuga Bank's Lacona Branch location in October 2002 and retains all staff members.

2005 – Bank builds new branch in Central Square, which opened June 12, 2005.

2009 – Pathfinder Bank celebrates 150 years!

2011 – Pathfinder Bank opens first branch in Onondaga County.

2014 – Pathfinder Bancorp, MHC reorganized from the two-tier mutual holding company structure to the stock holding company structure.

The college put out a request for proposals in early 2016, and of those that came in, one -- that of Pathfinder Bank -- fit the criteria for what became the Business Resource Center and the nearby Office of Business and Community Relations.

2017 – On January 1, 2017 the Pike Block became a fully licensed banking branch.