Home Moravian Church
Introduction
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The main building of the Home Moravian Church
View of both the Home Moravian Church and Salem College Main Hall. Salem College was founded as a Moravian girls' school in 1772.
Backstory and Context
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"Old Salem" was originally founded by the Moravian settlers in 1766. Salem, known at the time as Wachovia, was designed to be the religious, cultural, and industrial hub of four other surrounding Moravian settlements spanning over 98,000 acres. All land was owned by the church to be leased for construction to church members. Forsyth County was created in 1849, but the Moravians declined establishing Salem as the county seat. They instead sold land (what is currently known as Winston) in order for that property to house the courthouse. Salem became a legal municipality in 1857, as the church began to allow members to purchase their land. Salem and Winston merged to create Winston-Salem in 1913.
Sources
Our History, Home Moravian Church. Accessed September 30th 2020. https://www.homemoravian.org/who-we/history/.
Salem Congregation, Moravian Archives. Accessed September 30th 2020. https://moravianarchives.org/moravian-church-southern-province/salem-congregation/.
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