Bethabara Historic District

Bethabara Historic District encompasses the surviving buildings and archaeological remains of a small Moravian community, that was first settled in 1753. Located in present-day Forsyth County, North Carolina, it is now a public park of the city of Winston-Salem. It was designated National Historic Landmark in 1999.HistoryBethabara was a village located in what is now Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was the site where eleven men from the Moravian Church first settled in 1753 in an abandoned cabin in the 100000acre tract of land the church had purchased from Lord Granville and dubbed Wachovia.Its early settlers were noted for advanced agricultural practices, especially their medicine Garden, which produced over fifty kinds of herbs.Although later parties of Moravians joined the first eleven, including women and children, Bethabara was never meant to be a permanent settlement. It was intended to house the Moravians until a more suitable location for their central village could be found. In 1771, that place was completed: Salem. Many of the settlers moved to Salem, and Bethabara became an outlying farm to supply the residents of Salem and other Moravian villages with food.