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The N&W Annual Reports list Charles S. Churchill with the following titles:
    1913    Chief Engineer
    1914 - 1917   Asst. to President
    1918 - 1926    Vice President
    1926 - Retired Sep. 30, 1926

The mention of his home at Mountain Ave. and Orchard Hill St. brings back old memories.  In its day the two-block long Orchard Hill was the Nob Hill of Roanoke where bank presidents and railroad officials had homes.  When I first came to Roanoke, after Orchard Hill had passed its prime, I stayed in a boarding house in one of the grand old homes on that short street.  This house was at Highland Ave. and Orchard Hill St., just a block from Churchill's former home, but I knew nothing about most of the former residents.  Orchard Hill St. only extended about two blocks from Elm Ave. to just south of Highland Ave. and the street and the grand old homes are gone now.  First, Community Hospital was built on the former location of Orchard Hill St. between Elm Ave. and Mountain Ave., and later the hospital took the remaining part of Orchard Hill St. for a parking area.

Gordon Hamilton
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  Mmm...  Doesn't the article say CS Churchill, VP of the N&W?
   
  Rodney 



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  Was this not the home of C. E. Churchill, the chief civil engineer of the
  N&W until his 'retirement' to head the valuation department in 1920?  

  Gary Rolih 



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  Roanoke Times - March 26, 1958

  Roanoke Landmark In Southeast Area Is Being Razed

    Another Roanoke landmark will soon be gone.

    The house at Orchard Hill and Mountain Ave., SE, for many years 
  the home of the late C. S. Churchill, vice president of the Norfolk 
  and Western Railway, is now being razed.

    Lynn R. Hammond, owner of the property, said plans for the use of 
  the site are indefinite.




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