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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10C1_daniel-boone-trail_Winston-Salem-NC.html
In Memory of Trail MakerHunter and PioneerDANIEL BOONE
Who Hunted Fished and Foughtin the Streams and Forests ofthis and Adjoining Counties Duringthe Middle of the 18th Century—-This Monument is erected by the Booone Trail Highway Associa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10BZ_brookstown-united-methodist-church_Pfafftown-NC.html
Founded by the Phillip N. Mock family who gave one acre of land for the church. Founding members of the congregation donated timber and labor for the construction of the original, single-room log building. The second building was constructed in 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106N_medical-gardens-1761_Winston-Salem-NC.html
The first Medical Garden (Hortus Medicus) was planted here in 1756 for Dr. Hans Martin Kalberlahn. This reconstruction is based upon the Christian Gottlieb Reuter map of Dr. August Schuberts' 1761 garden. The map indicates the plants for each bed.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106M_community-garden-1759_Winston-Salem-NC.html
The earliest garden was planted near the Wagner Cabin in 1754. The area was later enlarged by the head garnener, Jacob Lung, to include one half acre and appear as they do today. The members of the community worked in the garden together and then …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106L_gemeinhaus-1756_Winston-Salem-NC.html
This large two-story log building was the first Moravian Congregation House, or church, in North Carolina. It was begun in 1755 and consecrated in February, 1756. It contained the Gemeinsaal (meeting hall) and living quarters for the Minister's fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106K_bethabara-fort-1756-63_Winston-Salem-NC.html
The French and Indian War (1754-63) prompted the peaceful Moravians, in the midst of busy harvest time and in only 18 days, to build a five-sided palisade around the central part of the community. Later, such fortifications were added to the mill …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106J_log-house-ca-1816_Winston-Salem-NC.html
This log house was built on the site of an earlier 1759 house. Although the date of its construction is still under investigation, according to the Records of the Moravians this house may have been built as early as 1816. Over the years it was mod…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106I_hans-wagner-cabin-1752_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Hans Wagner, a hunter, trapper and miller, and his teenage son built this cabin in 1752, but left for new land on the Yadkin River, when the Moravians purchased the Wachovia Tract. On November 17, 1753, the first 15 Brothers found the abandoned ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106H_wash-house-1754_Winston-Salem-NC.html
This is an interpretive reconstruction of the house used by the Brothers to wash their clothes. The spaces between the logs (the chinks) were not filled with daubing in order to facilitate the movement of fresh air.
"This afternoon we had a tim…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106G_store-house-shed-and-lodging-for-strangers-1754_Winston-Salem-NC.html
On February 8, 1754, the Brothers began construction on a "cabin for strangers"; they completed it the following day. It measured 8' by 8', had a fireplace and enough room for two sick guests. In July 1754, another pen, measuring 6' by 8', was add…