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Off NC 150 35°39′01″N 80°38′12″W / 35.6503°N 80.6367°W / 35.6503; -80.6367 ( Thyatira Presbyterian Church, Cemetery, and Mill Bridge
Grace Church began with the influx of German settlers into Piedmont North Carolina mostly from Pennsylvania during the 1740s and 50s. Many of the Germans were of the Lutheran persuasion, but the settlers who began Grace Church were of the Reformed tradition and were called the Calvin or "Presbyterian Congregation on Second Creek in the Dutch Settlement."
Rockwell Elementary School, formerly known as Rockwell School, was built in 1928. It combined a total of eighteen one and two room school houses within the eastern part of Rowan County. Until 1959, Rockwell School housed grades 1-12. Beginning in 1959, Rockwell housed grades 1–6. In 1973, Kindergarten was added and made Rockwell a K-6 school.
Powles is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Edward Powles (1921–2008), English Royal Air Force pilot; Charles Guy Powles (1872–1951), New Zealand soldier; Guy Powles (1905–1994), New Zealand diplomat; John Powles (1948–2010), Canadian president of the Canada-Japan Society; John Diston Powles (c.1787–1867), English ...
Edward Ted C. Powles was born in Hereford, England, on 19 April 1921, to George and Louise Tillam Powles.. Despite his height of 6 feet, 4 inches (1.93 m), Powles joined the Royal Air Force as an apprentice during the Second World War and trained as a photo-reconnaissance pilot, remaining in service after the cessation of hostilities.
Zion Lutheran Church, also known as Organ Church, is a historic Lutheran church located near Rockwell, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was built in 1794, and is a two-story, stone building. A large bell tower was added about 1900; it is topped by a heavy octagonal spire with a weathervane. A Sunday School addition was built on the rear of the ...
Powles moved it in 1865, as "St Neot's Preparatory School", to Wixenford House, in Kingsley's parish of Eversley. [3] The Eliot Place school, set up in 1805 by John Potticary, was also the origin of St Piran's , later in Maidenhead , where it was moved by Thomas Nunns around 1872, who had bought the school from Powles.
Powles was born in Cirencester, England, in January 1860, one of six children. [2] [3] [4] His father was Rev. Henry C. Powles. [5] Powles attended Oxford, where he studied Mathematics under Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland. [4] Powles gained his MA from there in 1898. [2]