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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS
PICTURESQUE WINSTON-SALEM
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FOR SALE NEW UP-TO-DATE BUNGALOW
Eight large rooms with bath, store room and plenty of closets,
plastered, hardwood floors, cypress doors, Cathedral glass casement
windows, 7 foot stone fireplace, hot air heat, 120 feet of porches,
3 sides, new range and soapstone tubs, good water supply, pine
groves and small pond on four acres surrounding. Apply to
MR. JILLSON OF THE OUTLOOK or
MR. NEWCOMB AT THE GENERAL OFFICE
HIGHLAND PINES INN
ON WEYflOUTH HEIGHTS - SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.
A beautiful Colonial building luxuriously furnislfd and fquijp(d with the
best box-spring beds and hair mattresses; accommodating 200 quests and more
than half the rooms have private baths. Greatly enlarged for the present season,
orchestra, Country Club, golf, tennis, hunting, motoring, Faulkenberg riding
School headquarters ; adjoins the great Weymouth Pine woods.
SEASON, NOVEMBER TO MAY.
On mam line of Seaboard Air Line liailway. Fifteen minutes motor to
Pinehurst over Capitol Highway. Write for illustrated booklet.
ANDREW I. CREAMER & MILLARD H. TURNER, Proprieiors.
FIREPROOF
NEW
MODERN
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN
HOTEL CONTINENTAL
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Opposite Union Station Plaza
This modern fireproof hotel offers every comfort and
convenience at moderate prices.
Room with detached bath $1.50 to 2.00 Room with private bath $2.50 to $3.00
American Plan $3.50 and upwards
Management of A. W. CHAFFEE
PINEHURST; THE COMMUNITY
Write THE OUTLOOK if you are interested in this alltheyear
land of "Liberty and Living." fl A post card secures the illustrated
Board of Trade Booklet.
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Settled By Tinan Jloravians
EASILY one of the most
interesting towns in
North Carolina is Salem,
in Forsyth County,
which is so joined to the
younger city of Winston
that the two have become
one community under the
name of Winston-Salem,
though the older town dates from 1752
and the younger one has but little more
than 60 years to its credit. H Not in this
country is there a more self-contained,
zealous, industrious and deeply religious
community than that of Salem, which is
the head town of the Moravians, the out
lying villages nearby being several in
number, chief among them being Betha
bara, Wachovia and Bethania. The Mora
vians came first from Germany to Penn
sylvania and from there to North Caro
lina, and bought at a merely nominal
price land from the Lords Proprietors of
Carolina, who then owned all the territory
now embraced within the limits of this
State; all of them except Earl Granville
a little later selling their titles back to
the King. If The Moravians came for two
purposes; to preach the Gospel to the
colonists and to do missionary work
among the Indians. When they arrived
they found the settlers widely scattered
and divided into various little sects,
preachers being very few. Earl Gran
ville saw an opportunity for a fine settle
ment and so made a very liberal offer to
the Moravians, when he found they wished
to come here, and this was carefully con
sidered both in Germany and at Bethle
hem, Penn. The Moravians in Germany
were full of the idea of doinar an im
mense missionary work in America and
their desire was to buy a great tract of
land, though there was not much money
among them. About 1750 the Moravians
abroad were heavily persecuted, many
killed and others banished. The following
year they decided to buy from Lord
Granville 100,000 acres of land, the terms
being wonderfully reasonable, and it was
also decided to send some of their strong
est men to North Carolina to survey the
great estate about to be bought and to
report to the Moravians who had then
established the head of their church gov
ernment in London.
Among those who came to North Caro
lina on this mission was Bishop Span
genburg, a remarkable man in every way,
and he wrote the story of the journey to
America and his long and in some re
spects dangerous journey from the coast
of this colony to the lands they had in
view. After they had gone across two
thirds of the State they struck the Indian
country. They found, after looking over
much territory, exactly the land they
wanted in Forsyth County, so they made
the survey and a little later bought it.
H The Moravians kept records of every
thing and have in their remarkably fine
historical museum the unbroken story of
their settlement from 1752, when it was
made, to this date, the manuscript being
in German up to 1865 and since then in
English. This story is absolutely thorough,
embracing religion, education, history,
adventure, industry and finance, and is
regarded as one of the most accurate and
extensive sources of information, both
church and state, which the United States
contains. H The settlers left Bethlehem,
Penn., in August, 1752, and went to Eden
ton, near the coast, and thence on horse
back to their new location, sometimes
followed by the Indians. Their guide, a
hunter, once lost his way and their horses
nearly starved, but they found buffalo
and deer and thus got food.
They named the place in honor of the
home of Count Zinzendorf of Austria, a
devoted Moravian who had been banished
for his faith. Spangenburg in Ids jour
nal says many fine families were coming
from the North to settle in Western North
Carolina. Lord Granville gave the deeds
to the lands in 1753. The first payment
was of $2,500, there being also a yearly
rental of 75 cents, known as ground rent,
and to pay even this small sum a com
pany had to be formed at Holland which
raised the money. The first settlement
was regularly formed November 17, 1753,
there being a preacher, doctor, able busi
ness man, two farmers, and men of six
different trades. Their first meal was the
"Love Feast," with prayer and praise,
and they built a home in which all lived,
planted crops and fruit trees and raised
medicinal herbs. They built shops for
the carpenter, tailor, potter, blacksmith,
shoemaker and cooper and also the tan
nery and next year they commenced active
trading with their neighbors. Their
quaint archives show the value of a pair
of shoes at that date. A stranger wanted
a pair, had no money, but got the shoes
by cutting down and trimming 100 forest
trees. The twelve men in this initial
colony the first year began the building
of a mill which yet stands, having to
make the mill stones and forge the iron,
the mill being very important in the
Indian war and also in the Revolution, as
citizens and refugees were fed by it and
British and American soldiers made heavy
demands upon it.
The Moravians are kindness itself and
always gave guests their houses, while
they slept in the open. Their doctor was
a god send to the primitive settlers and
Indians also, a great many coming to
him. The second year they built what
they called the t( strangers house," of
logs, and the first ones to use it were a
man and his sick wife who had been
brought 50 miles to the doctor. H The
Moravians raised live stock, formed a
literary society, had all sorts of social
enjoyments and hunted bears, wolves and
and panthers, but nothing else. They
traveled near and far, setting down
everything they saw, and their Dr. Kolbe
hahn went as far as 100 miles through the
wild forest to the sick or injured. In
1755 they had 426 people as their guests.
These Moravians paid taxes, but refused
to take oaths or do military duty. Socially
they were greatly beloved by the people