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Historic Bethabara Park
Winston-Salem, NC (http://www.bethabarapark.org/)
Resource summary
- Appropriate grades: 3–12
- Subjects: science (natural history), social studies (North Carolina, United States history)
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- Moravian Migration: Before a Visit to Bethabara Students investigate NCECHO site to "read all about" the 1753 Moravian settlement of Bethabara within our social studies curriculum topic on Life Long Ago. The Historic Bethabara Park website has historic background in narrative and diary form. After reading and discussing this information in teams with the teacher, student teams present information to classmates in some visual product in one of five categories. Students also will visit the photos on NCECHO and answer analytical questions to increase understanding of the past as compared to today.
- Why is the past important? As an introduction to the study of North Carolina's archaeological heritage, students will use personally owned object to share the importance of their past and connect this importance with reasons why the human past is important.
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This website for the Historic Bethabara Park commemorates and depicts the settlement in what is today Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It was founded on November 17, 1753 when fifteen Moravian brethren arrived after walking from Pennsylvania. Here you will find an introduction to the stories that can be discovered at this historic site, including the story of the Moravians, the 1753 wilderness preserve, colonial agriculture, cultural history, the village of 1754, and more. This website features several images highlighting the historical gardens, the "people's house," and many other aspects of Bethabara.
To take a tour of this historic site, please contact Ellen Kutcher, the Director of Education, at (336) 924-8191 or ekutcher@bethabarapark.org. Tour dates are April 1- June 1 and August 15 - December 1.
See also:The Winston-Salem Convention and Visitors Bureau and NC ECHO photographs of Historic Bethabara