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The Historic Moravian Bethlehem Historic District encompasses a complex of the oldest surviving buildings in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.The National Historic Landmark District is a subset of the larger Central Bethlehem Historic District which is specifically focused on the early buildings constructed by the Moravians, who settled the city in the 18th century.
The Single Sisters’ House is an historic building located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania constructed by the Moravian settlers as a Choir House for the Single Brethren in 1744, and is part of a larger building complex that also contains the 1741 Gemeinhaus, 1746 Bell House, and 1751 Old Chapel. As the community grew it was re-purposed for the ...
It moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1745. [2] The seminary began as an elementary educational institution for young girls starting at ages five or six years old. [1] In 1785, due to increasing demand, the Bethlehem Female Seminary reorganized as a secondary educational institution that became known as the Moravian Female Seminary.
The Moravian Museum of Bethlehem, also known as the 1741 Gemeinhaus and the Lewis David de Schweinitz Residence, is a historic house museum at 66 West Church Street in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Moravian University is the sixth-oldest college in the United States and the first to educate women in the original 13 colonies. It traces its roots to the Bethlehem Female Seminary, which was founded in 1742, as the second boarding school for young women in the U.S. behind just the Ursuline Academy in New Orleans.
History of education in Bethlehem, PA 1966: Kenneth G. Hamilton: Salem in Wachovia and the Genius of the Moravians as Colonizers 1965: Vernon Nelson: Samuel Isles, First Moravian Missionary on Antiqua 1964: Richmond E. Myers: Moravians and the Civil War 1963: Allan W. Schattschneider: A History of the Moravian Church at New Dorp, Staten Island ...
The Colonial Industrial Quarter in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is considered America's earliest industrial park.Established by the colonial Moravians along the banks of the Monocacy Creek, the ten-acre site contains historic buildings such as the 1762 Waterworks (A National Historic Landmark), 1761 Tannery, 1869 Luckenbach Mill, 1748/1834 Gristmiller's House, reconstructed 1764 Springhouse and ...
Moravian missionaries first established a mission at Friedenshütten ("Tents of Peace"), [5]: 92–93 near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1744, but in 1745 decided to move some distance northwest of Bethlehem, to a site they named Gnadenhütten ("Tents of Grace," often written Gnadenhuetten and sometimes referred to as "Gnadenhütten on the Mahoney" to distinguish it from Gnadenhutten in Ohio ...