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File c. 1913 Construction on the Terry Building began in 1890 and it opened in July 1892 on the corner of Jefferson and Campbell. The National Exchange Bank and various businesses occupied the building. In 1913, Colonial Bank and Trust Co. moved in. The building was torn down in 1926, and the new office of Colonial American National Bank was erected.

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1999 (10 years ago)

n "Now that the Roanoke County School Board has bought a site for a new high school in Southwest County, it wants to buy land for a new elementary school while property is available."

n "Roanoke dog owners will find themselves on a shorter leash following the City Council's passage of an ordinance Monday that limits the number of dogs per household and requires owners to clean up their pets' messes."

n "'Talkin' Sports' has been silenced. The local, drive-time sports talk show with Brian Davis as host has been canceled by SeaStar Communications, the corporate owner of WGMN (1240 AM) and WVGM (1320 AM)."

1984 (25 years ago)

n "The nation will remember D-day, June 6, 1944, when CBS airs a news report on Bedford County, which had the highest death toll of any locality in American during the allied invasion of Western Europe."

n "The Interstate 81 exit at Daleville -- one of the Roanoke Valley's most famous interchanges -- is scheduled to get $3 million for rebuilding in Virginia's 1984-85 road spending plan"

n Norfolk and Western's No. 611 Class J steam engine was named a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.

1959 (50 years ago)

n "Two men named Meador met last night in front of a drive-in theater. ... One went to a hospital a few minutes later. The Meadors were driving two cars that collided head-on."

n "Business and industries in Roanoke provide nearly 11,000 jobs for residents of four surrounding counties, the Virginia State Employment Service found in a 'metropolitan area' survey."

n "Tempers must have been at the breaking point in Roanoke during the weekend if today's Municipal Court docket was any indication. Five assault cases were handled by Judge Robert L. Quarles."

n "An average of 12 corporation-owned business airplanes land at Woodrum Field daily, providing the city with about $50,000 annually from the sale of gasoline, oil and other airport services."

n "Roanoke saw its first airplane in 1910, a Roanoke businessman contended today, and he has produced a picture to prove it."

n "Ronnie Simmons, the greatest scorer in basketball history at Troutville High, said today he plans to enroll at Roanoke College in September."

n "Mill Mountain's Children's Zoo, believed to be the world's highest zoo for children, opens its eighth season, Memorial Day, May 30."

n "A bottle that once held Roanoke-made whisky was unearthed yesterday from its hiding place of more than 40 years. ... The bottle once contained Casper's Standard Pure Corn Whisky."

1934 (75 years ago)

n "Between 450 and 500 names of deceased persons have been removed from the list of registered voters by Miss Elizabeth Woods, general registrar."

n "A herd of some fifty ordinarily docile Holstein milch cows were on a brief rampage down a main highway near here this morning, leaving a much battered sedan in its wake."

n "Two ABC stores will vend the first legal alcoholic beverages in Roanoke in almost two decades of dryness."

n "Pointing out that Salem is nearer the new veterans' hospital than Roanoke, the public affairs committee of the Salem Kiwanis club last night pointed out that it would be more fitting to have President Roosevelt as Salem's guest, if he attends the opening of one of the hospital buildings this fall."

n "Negro Boy Scouts are handicapped in aspirations for first-class ranking because of the lack of adequate facilities for swimming tests, and there is a movement under way for the construction of a swimming pool for colored in Washington Park."

n "City Council yesterday approved a resolution authorizing its special airport committee to offer $40,000 for the purchase of the 137 acres comprising the municipal airport and $67,500 for the entire Cannaday farm of which it is a part."

n "Roanoke's curb market for farm produce will become an all-day market beginning June 1."

n "A golfer excavating in one of the sand-traps at Monterey yesterday unearthed an Indian arrowhead."

1909 (100 years ago)

n "If charges made against Richard Dovell are substantiated by evidence adduced at his trial, that particular individual is in a bunch of trouble."

n "Unless stringent methods are employed to stop the devastating influences of the San Jose scale in and about Roanoke, nearly all the trees which help to beautify the streets and the lawns will be killed."

n "There will be nothing slow about the campaign of the Citizens League of Roanoke if the program is carried out which is now scheduled, and there will be exposes which will make a number of local people stay awake nights figuring on some way to even up the score."

n "The Poages Mill baseball team defeated the local [Starkey] team Saturday afternoon on the home ground by batting St. Clair all over the lot."

n "There has been considerable smoking in the east wing of the grand stand and box seats and this should be prohibited. There are signs in the grand stand which read 'No smoking allowed,' but some few persist in smoking regardless of the fact that there are ladies in their presence."

n "Occupying positions enviable to many men and many women who have made success of life, thirty-three young women and young men last night made it possible for the annual commencement exercises of the Roanoke High School to be the recognized success that it was."

n "It will be a matter of difficulty for many Roanokers to quit calling the mammoth bank building at the corner of Campbell avenue and Jefferson street, 'the Terry Building,' notwithstanding the fact that its real and official name is not that any more. From now it will be the 'National Exchange Bank Building,' "

n "After playing ten innings in the face of a chilly wind, and with damp and sticky grounds, the Tigers yesterday afternoon bit the dust to the tune of one to nothing."