Qualla: Wachovia Tract https://qualla.com/wachovia-tract en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/v/wachovia-tract-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Wachovia Tract https://qualla.com/wachovia-tract Wachovia Tract: Introduction https://qualla.com/wachovia-tract/ Photo credit David Bjorgen, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name on the tract had nothing to do with North Carolina. In 1752 a Moravian bishop named August Gottlieb Spangenberg led a surveying party into the backcountry of the Province of North Carolina looking for somewhere the Unitas Fratrum could plant its American settlements. The team got lost in the western mountains, came down through what is now Wilkes County, and finally arrived at the Three Forks of Muddy Creek. The terrain along the Yadkin and the Catawba reminded the bishop of the Wachau region in Lower Austria - the Danube valley between Melk and Krems where Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, the Moravians' patron, kept his family estate. They named the tract die Wachau, which the English ear flattened into Wachovia, and bought 98,985 acres from John Carteret, the 2nd Earl Granville. A Latin name for a German memory pinned to a German purchase on Cherokee and Saponi land.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/v/wachovia-tract-wp/dnqv-wachovia-tract-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wachovia Tract: Six Villages of the Lord https://qualla.com/wachovia-tract/ Photo credit David Bjorgen, CC BY-SA 3.0. The first settlers arrived on November 17, 1753 - twelve Moravian Single Brethren who had walked down from the Christiansbrunn farm near Nazareth, Pennsylvania. They founded Bethabara, which in Hebrew means House of Passage, and the name was honest: Bethabara was always meant to ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/v/wachovia-tract-wp/dnqv-wachovia-tract-six-villages-of-the-lord.mp3 0:06 2 full Wachovia Tract: Bethania's Quiet Resistance https://qualla.com/wachovia-tract/ Photo credit David Bjorgen, CC BY-SA 3.0. Bethania has done something remarkable. For more than two and a half centuries it has stayed independent of the city it sits next to. When Winston-Salem began absorbing every Moravian settlement in Forsyth County, Bethania reactivated its 1838-1839 town charter, incorporated as a...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/v/wachovia-tract-wp/dnqv-wachovia-tract-bethanias-quiet-resistance.mp3 0:06 3 full Wachovia Tract: From Salem to Wachovia Bank https://qualla.com/wachovia-tract/ Photo credit David Bjorgen, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1849 the new county of Forsyth carved itself out of the southern half of Stokes County, and the Salem congregation sold land just north of town for a secular county seat. In 1852 the new town was named Winston for a Revolutionary War officer named Joseph Winston. In 1875 a tob...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/q/v/wachovia-tract-wp/dnqv-wachovia-tract-from-salem-to-wachovia-bank.mp3 0:06 4 full Wachovia Tract: What Remains https://qualla.com/wachovia-tract/ Photo credit David Bjorgen, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Wachovia Tract has been redrawn so many times that the original 98,985 acres are now split across most of Forsyth County and a slice of Stokes. The Moravians' six villages have shrunk to two. Wachovia Bank's name was retired by Wells Fargo in 2011. But Old Salem still stands ...

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