Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

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Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
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Steele Creek Presbyterian Church
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Location7407 Steele Creek Rd., near Charlotte, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°11′3″N80°57′23″W / 35.18417°N 80.95639°W / 35.18417; -80.95639
Area17 acres (6.9 ha)
Built1889 (1889)
ArchitectNorris, H.J.; Bigham Workshop
Architectural styleGothic Revival
MPS Rural Mecklenburg County MPS
NRHP reference No. 91000082 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 21, 1991

Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church complex and national historic district located near Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The church was founded in 1760 and the current sanctuary was built in 1889, and is a rectangular, Gothic Revival style brick building. It is five bays wide and six bays deep, and has pointed-arched sash windows, shallow buttresses, and steeply pitched roof parapet. The cemetery contains approximately 1,700 headstones, with the oldest dating to 1763. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1]

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Steele Creek may refer to:

Thomas Gillespie was a large plantation owner in mid-to-late 18th-century North Carolina and served as commissary of the Rowan County Regiment in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolution. He spent his early life in Augusta County, Virginia before migrating to Anson County, North Carolina in about 1750, where he lived most of his life on Sills Creek in the area that became Rowan County, North Carolina in 1753. He and his wife and son were the first white settlers west of the Yadkin River. He owned a plantation of over 1,000 acres on Sills Creek in Rowan County, as well as 6,000 acres in the area of western North Carolina that became part of the state of Tennessee in 1796. He was an early elder in the Thyatira Presbyterian Church in Rowan County, which had been established by 1750. Thomas was the great-grandfather of U.S. President James K. Polk through the lineage of his daughter Lydia, who married Captain James Knox and gave birth to Jane Gracey Knox, mother of the President.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Richard Mattson and William Huffman (July 1990). "Steele Creek Presbyterian Church and Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.

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