Bethlehem of Pennsylvania: The First One Hundred Years, 1741-1841

ii, 226 pp. Includes more than 200 illustrations, 66 of which are in full color. Thirty-five years before The Declaration of Independence, a few dedicated Moravians founded the community on the edge of Indian country as a missionary center. They maintained their way of life for more than a century, through wars, the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and great social change. They sought peace and contributed to the development of the nation. When the continuation of a closed community was no longer possible, marking the end of the Moravian economy, they opened it to strangers and left their early culture as a legacy to later generations.--jacket