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6 unusual facts about Epworth


Banknotes of Zimbabwe

The main illustration on the obverse of banknotes issued since 1980 is the Chiremba Balancing Rocks in Epworth, Harare.

Dominic Carmon

He studied at the seminary of the Society of the Divine Word in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and at Divine Word College in Epworth, Iowa.

Epworth, Georgia

The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway now travels this route through the town between those two cities.

Epworth is also the location of an Appalachian Technical College campus which closed, and was later slated to reopen as campus of North Georgia Technical College.

Hannah Kilham

Hannah Kilham opened a day-school in Nottingham, spending her vacations at Epworth, her husband's early home.

Leonard Olivier

From 1974 to 1982, he was Secretary of Studies for all USA Divine Word Seminaries and Rector of the Religious Community of Divine Word Seminary, Epworth, Iowa.


Cornelius Vermuyden

The King was Lord of the four principal manors there: Hatfield, Epworth, Crowle and Misterton, as well as 13 of the adjacent manors, and he wanted to expand the cultivable area.

Epworth League

In the 1934 W. C. Fields movie It's a Gift, when Amelia Bissonette tells her husband Harold that his Uncle Bean has died, she says, "It seemed he was getting better, but he attended the Epworth League picnic, and he choked to death eating an orange."

In Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon, a saucy secretary tells St. Cosmo, who has entered the office after-hours, that "'this place ain't the Epworth League.'"

Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church

The Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church is a church located beside Harvard Law School near the Cambridge, Massachusetts common.

John Pounds

Roland Everett Jayne, The Story of John Pounds: Founder of Ragged Schools, Epworth Press, 1925.

Virginia State Route 30

The state highway passes through the hamlets of Caino, Mangohick (the site of Mangohick Church), Epworth, Pollards Corner, and Turpin before reaching its intersection with US 360 (Richmond Tappahannock Highway) in the village of Central Garage.


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