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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM105T_bastion-1756_Winston-Salem-NC.html
In the late 1750s Indian hostilities spread through Bethabara and the surrounding area. When the palisade fort was built, these bastions offered good defense by allowing a man to see up and down each side of the fort. Night watch duty was assigned…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM105S_the-brothers-house-1755_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Between November 1754 and June 1755 this large dwelling was built by and for the single men of Bethabara. The cellar you see here was dug beneath one end of the two story log building. This important house served as assembly, dining and sleeping h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM105M_congregation-store-addition-after-1766_Winston-Salem-NC.html
This addition to the Bethabara store was built sometime after 1766, according to surviving maps. Notice the fireplace base support extending to the cellar floor. Additions to Moravian buildings were common, often based more on practicality that ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM105J_congregation-store-1759-1764_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Opened in 1759, the Bethabara store played an important role in the life of the community. It provided basic goods, not only to the Moravians, but also to customers from many miles around. The store served as a shipping point for Moravian goods se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1050_congregation-kitchen-1766_Winston-Salem-NC.html
In the face of frontier hardships the Moravians practiced common housekeeping. Their system of communal living meant that every member of the congregation had a share in the necessary tasks of sustaining the town, such as raising cabins, clearing …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM104X_well-1763_Winston-Salem-NC.html
This well, one of three dug in 1763, stood on the town square and probably served the needs of many of the central buildings in Bethabara. It had a mechanical pump for bringing up the water, rather than a rope and bucket. This well was still the s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM104W_bell-house_Winston-Salem-NC.html
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM104V_family-house-1758_Winston-Salem-NC.html
The Moravians in Bethabara used a "choir" system, which assigned each member of the congregation to a group according to age, sex and marital status. Nevertheless, the importance of the individual family remained a vital part of community life. As…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM104U_vorstehers-house-1758_Winston-Salem-NC.html
This framework and brick home was built in 1758 for the Vorsteher (for-shtay-er), who served his community as business manager and treasurer. His duties would have been similar to those of the present-day city manager's. Due to soil erosion, the a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM104T_apothecary-shop-1763_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Constructed for the apothecary (pharmacist), this building was both his home and office. For medicinal purposes, the apothecary dissolved and distilled various herbs and plants—some grown in his garden and others found in nearby fields. "…
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