Bell House

Bell House (HM104W)

Location: Winston-Salem, NC 27106 Forsyth County
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Country: United States of America
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N 36° 9.32', W 80° 17.87'

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A bell used in Bethabara to strike the hours and to call the people together for services, or emergencies, such as the Flax House fire in 1776. The first bell—the only one within 200 miles of Bethabara—frightened Cherokee Indians from the fort in 1760, and was broken "into many pieces" in a storm later that year. A new bell, first placed here, was moved in 1788 to the new Gemeinhaus, where it still hangs (and rings) today.

"We found that one post in the tower in which the bell hangs had rotted badly, so the bell was taken down, the posts cut off at the bottom, and the tower placed temporarily near the carpenter shop so that the bell could still be rung."
Bethabara Diary, April 8, 1766.
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HM NumberHM104W
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Placed ByHistoric Bethabara Park
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Date Added Monday, September 29th, 2014 at 12:25pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 563160 N 4001405
Decimal Degrees36.15533333, -80.29783333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 36° 9.32', W 80° 17.87'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds36° 9' 19.20" N, 80° 17' 52.20" W
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Area Code(s)336
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 2148-2198 Bethabara Rd, Winston-Salem NC 27106, US
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