It is recognized by the North Carolina Resource Commission as a WILD Education site. The National Park Service named Historic Bethabara Park a National Historic Landmark in 1999. The Park is designated as one of only two local Historic districts and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 1788 Gemeinhaus is the last surviving example of an 18th-Century German-American church with attached living quarters remaining in the United States. The mission of the museum is "to preserve, acquire and interpret the (Moravian) past in order to make a better future." The City of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County share administrative operating support for the Museum. Historic Bethabara Park was incorporated as a not-for-profit museum in 1970.
During the French and Indian War (1753 through 1762), Bethabara and its two forts served as defensive centers for regional settlers and a supply depot for the Cherokee allies of the British. The Moravians constructed more than 75 buildings during the first 20 years of the settlement's existence.
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It was the beginning of a series of Moravian settlements on the 100,000-acre tract that the Moravians had purchased in the Piedmont of North Carolina.īethabara (House of Passage) was a center for religion, governance, trade, industry, culture, education, and the arts.
Bethabara became the first Moravian settlement in North Carolina. As followers of Jan Hus, a Bohemian heretic who was burned at the stake in 1415, the Moravians are acknowledged as the first Protestants, pre-dating the Lutherans by 100 years. The Moravians, or Unitas Fratrum (United Brethren), were German-speaking Protestants. The settlement of Bethabara in what is today Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was founded on Novemwhen fifteen Moravian Brethren arrived after walking from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. To learn more about our updated exhibits in the Visitor Center click here!
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