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Knowledge about a religious sect settled in Salem between the mid-18th and early 20th centuries and archival conservation process can be found in this profile of D.H. Hill Library. More about Moravians can be mined in the million pages plus of documents chronicling everyday life in nearly every day detail. How manuscripts are conserved can be better understood by factors accounting for their unique appearance and unusual fragility.
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38271
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Bethabara’s community center isn’t a historic building, but a garden that has played a role in the community’s history for over 250 years. Started by the Moravians who founded Bethabara, a community in Winston-Salem, this garden is cited as the only known, well-documented Colonial garden in the United States. Its continuing significance is evident in recent efforts by groups such as archaeologists and Garden Club Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County to re-establish its original design and restore it to its intended purpose.
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38283
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Old Salem, settled in 1772 by Moravians, has had its history well preserved due to members compiling detailed daily life accounts. Because of this, the task taken on in the 1950s to preserve Salem and turn it into to Old Salem was possible. Currently, Old Salem reflects historical integrity in its 107 historic buildings and individuals who realistically reenact daily life, evident in the accompanied photographs. An example of a conscientiously preserved historic building is the tavern George Washington lodged in during his visit in 1791, looking much as it did during his visit.
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10341
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Andreas Kremser, a Moravian who lived in the Single Brothers House in Salem, was killed when an excavation at the house collapsed on him. Duncan recounts sightings of him up till 1950, when a visiting minister determined that he should “lay the ghost.â€
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The first love feast North Carolina was held in November 1753 in the historic Moravian settlement in Forsyth County. Since then, this communal celebration has become standard holiday fare for many churches across the state. Duncan discusses what distinguishes a Moravian-style Christmas love feast from candlelight Christmas Eve services of other denominations.
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David Tannenburg, born in Germany in 1728, is considered the foremost North American organ builder of the 18th century. The organ he built for the Moravians, called the Great Organ, was installed in the home Moravian Church in Salem in 1800. This organ, silent for the past 100 years, has been restored. Of the 644 original pipes, 628 were located and used in the restoration.
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21657
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This article examines the migration of Moravian families from the northeast United States, into Wachovia settlements in North Carolina during the mid-18th century. This movement stemmed from a desire for more land but also from the importance of religion and common places of worship. Settlement in North Carolina was accompanied by settlement from European immigrants and other Moravian settlements in America.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 79 Issue 4, Oct 2002,
p409-439 , il, map, f
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In the winter of 1753, the Moravian church in Pennsylvania sent twelve young men to the Piedmont section of North Carolina to start a settlement which they called Bethabara. This village gave way in the 1760s to the newer town of Salem. Several of Bethabara's original buildings and stone foundations remain. Today the state's first Moravian settlement is a historic site and city park.
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In an 1822 effort to segregate their congregation, Moravian Church officials in Salem, North Carolina, established a separate nondenominational black Christian church. White parishioners established the black church as a way to maintain cultural control, but they also feared large gatherings of blacks and were afraid the church would provide a nest to incite slave rebellions. The services were under the direction of Moravian minister Abraham Gottlieb Steiner, but blacks often led services and attended Methodist camp meetings. The segregated church provided members with a unique semblance of family and community.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 71 Issue 4, Oct 1994,
p401-429 , il, por, f
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Old Salem's Moravian Easter Sunrise Service has inspired the faithful for generations.
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Griffin discusses the restoration project being carried out at the Moravian village known as Old Salem. Moravians founded the town in 1766 and unlike many early American towns it was a planned community.
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Swiss-born Moravian Christian Winkler first came to Salem in 1807 where he and his descendants operated a bakery until the late 1920s. In 1968, Old Salem, Inc. restored the building, and manager Mary Jane Smith and her employees make Moravian breads, cookies, and cakes. They wear outfits appropriate to the time period, and still use the big brick oven originally installed in the bakery. In 1977, Winkler Bakery began packaging and selling its sugar cake mix so that people could make the confection in their own homes.
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The North Carolina Moravians had to temper their pacifism with some dependence on force concerning the native Indians in the western part of the state. The worst of the troubles came during the French and Indian Wars as the Cherokees \"sold\"Â their land in the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals from 1754-1770. Fighting in the Northern colonies drove many Moravians into the Carolinas, particularly Bethabara, and after 1779, Bethania. Despite their scruples against bearing arms, the Moravians established a militia headed by Brother Jacob Loesch.
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Indian troubles obliged Moravians in North Carolina to live close to each other in a village for mutual protection, continuing a communal economy far longer than at first intended. Overcrowded by refugees, the original settlement in Bethabara expanded to a second location in the Black Walnut Bottoms. In 1749, the British Parliament specifically recognized the Moravians as an honorable Episcopal Church, allowing them to continue their lives within the framework of the Anglican Church.
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At the end of 1776, Bethabara and Bethania housed a large portion of the Moravian brethren, with Salem set to stand as the new community by 1773. The new town became the center of the Wachovia settlement, attracting professional men such as a doctor, apothecary, and surveyor. Salem soon became a craft and manufacturing center, offering a full slate of services including weaving, tanning, and distilling. Salem was founded on the Moravian principle of oecononie, whereby the means of production were owned by the community, and the goods they produced were shared in kind
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