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What happened to Heritage Banking Group?
Heritage Banking Group in Carthage, MS (earlier called The Carthage Bank) failed, and Trustmark National Bank of Jackson, MS took it over on Apr 15, 2011. That bank is now called Trustmark Bank (Jackson, MS).
The chain, step by step
From the day it opened to the bank at the end of the chain today. Each step is one entry in the FDIC's record.
- 1920The Carthage Bank opens in Carthage, MS
- Jan 2, 2005renamed Heritage Banking Group
- Apr 15, 2011FAILEDHeritage Banking Group failed, and Trustmark National Bank of Jackson, MS took it over.FDIC certificate 14273 ends; its business continues under certificate 4988.
- TodayOPEN
Trustmark BankMain office Jackson, MS · FDIC certificate 4988 · 176 offices in 5 states on June 30, 2026Every Trustmark Bank office → Website on file with the FDIC: www.trustmark.com
If you still have something from Heritage Banking Group
A lien that was never released
Heritage Banking Group failed on Apr 15, 2011. For a failed bank placed in FDIC receivership, the FDIC may be able to issue the lien release, if the loan was paid off to the bank before it failed or to the FDIC afterward. The FDIC says that where a failed bank had an acquirer, its records in most cases went to that acquirer. Here the chain from the acquirer leads to Trustmark Bank, which is worth asking too.
Requests go through the FDIC Information and Support Center with the recorded mortgage or title, and proof of payoff. The FDIC says to allow 30 business days once it has every document, and does not take requests by phone or email. Questions: FDIC Resolution Inquiries, 888-206-4662, 8am–4pm Central on weekdays.
An old account, passbook or CD
When a healthy bank assumes a failed bank's deposits, insured depositors become its customers right away (here, Trustmark National Bank). Start with Trustmark Bank, and ask them to search under the name Heritage Banking Group.
For failures since mid-1993 the law sets a clock: insured deposits not claimed within 18 months of the FDIC starting to pay depositors are offered to the state of the depositor's last known address on the bank's records. If the state takes them, the owner has 10 years to claim there before the money returns to the FDIC. Check FDIC unclaimed funds search and that state's unclaimed-property program.
A safe deposit box
The FDIC says that when a healthy bank assumes a failed bank's deposits, the branches usually reopen the next business day with box access. Today, ask Trustmark Bank. A box abandoned for years may have been turned over to the state's unclaimed-property program.
Box contents are not covered by FDIC insurance.
Not sure this is your bank?
Many banks shared a name. Match the city and the years above against your paperwork, or search again with the town.
Credit unions were never FDIC-insured and are not in this record; the NCUA credit union lookup covers those. Banks that closed before about 1970 are not in the FDIC's list either.
One caution: banks also sell single branches. If the office you used was sold to a different bank along the way, the account went with the branch, not with this chain. The office list below shows which bank each office reports under now.
This page is drawn from FDIC records and federal guidance. It is not legal advice, and BankBranches is not a bank or a government office. More detail: lien releases · old passbooks and CDs · safe deposit boxes · unclaimed money.
Where the guidance comes from ▾
Its offices in the FDIC deposit reports
12 offices filed under this charter in some year from 1994 on. 3 are still open as of June 30, 2026.
| Office | Now |
|---|---|
| 114 S Pearl StCarthage, MS | OpenTrustmark Bank |
| 106 Highway 16 WCarthage, MS | OpenTrustmark Bank |
| 101 W Water StCarthage, MS | OpenTrustmark Bank |
| 1520 West Government StreetBrandon, MS | No longer reported |
| 5419 Highway 25, Suite QBrandon, MS | No longer reported |
| 6169 U. S. Highway 98Hattiesburg, MS | No longer reported |
| 223 Key DriveMadison, MS | No longer reported |
| 701 Highway 16 WestCarthage, MS | No longer reported |
| Highway 16Edinburg, MS | No longer reported |
| 6606 Highway 98, Suite 3Hattiesburg, MS | No longer reported |
| 1888 Main Street, Suite CMadison, MS | No longer reported |
| Highway 16 WestCarthage, MS | No longer reported |
Source: FDIC BankFind institution and history records, read Nov 15, 2026. The FDIC's list covers banks that ended in about 1970 or later. Look up certificate 14273 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.