Nazareth Hall Memorial

We have been to Nazareth hundreds of times, but this is the first time we have driven by this memorial and the building seen behind it.

Nazareth Hall (the building) was built in 1754 in hopes that Count Nikolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf would return from Europe and settle permanently in the community. He never did return to America. In 1759 Nazareth Hall became the central boarding school for sons of Moravian parents. Later it attained wide fame as a "classical academy." This eventually led to the founding in 1807, of Moravian College and Theological Seminary now at Bethlehem. Nazareth Hall developed into a first-class academy during the Civil War era.

The Memorial seen in the forefront was erected in 1868 to commemorate the patriotism of the sons of Nazareth Hall ~ those who lost their lives during the American Civil War.

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