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Old Salem is a historic district of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, which was originally settled by the Moravian community in 1766. [3] It features a living-history museum which interprets the restored Moravian community.
4 paź 2023 · Beautiful old red colonial building in Old Salem. The founding of Salem is closely tied to an act of religious protest that occurred 60 years before Martin Luther’s Reformation. In 1415, John Hus of Bohemia was burned at the stake for heresy after protesting several Roman Catholic Church practices.
Old Salem Museums & Gardens is a historic site and museum combating food insecurity and exploring the stories of people, including Moravian, Black, and Indigenous peoples, in the American South.
3 sie 2024 · If you’re visiting North Carolina and interested in history, take a dive back in time to check out the community of Old Salem. Settled by the Moravians in 1766, the historic district has been preserved to showcase authentic life through costumed interpreters, interactive workshops, and historic buildings and gardens.
Old Salem Museums & Gardens shares the rich, authentic, and diverse cultural history of the early South–with special emphasis on the Moravians in North Carolina, enslaved and free people of African descent, and Indigenous peoples of the Southern Woodland, through the preservation and interpretation of material culture, architecture, and ...
Founded in 1766 by the Moravians—a Protestant religious group first organized in what is now the Czech Republic in the 15th century—Salem was developed as a central hub for the outlying congregations in the Wachovia Tract.
2 kwi 2021 · Salem was founded in 1766 in the colony of North Carolina on a nearly 100,000 acre tract of land purchased by the Moravian Church, a Protestant sect established in the fifteenth century in what is now the Czech Republic.
