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which commands a beautiful view of the valleys of the Lehigh and the Manocacy and the mountain beyond. It is built of selected mountain quarry stone, neatly pointed in black cement, with bricks for arches, cornices and belt courses laid in red mortar. Eight suites of rooms, four on each floor, divided by large corridors extending the whole length of the building, afford accommodation for as many inmates. Each suite consists of a sitting-room, a bed-chamber and a kitchen, the latter being furnished with a neat pressed-brick fire-place and cupboards. The bedrooms are supplied with wall closets. On each floor there are two bath-rooms with modern conveniences. An open stairway of oak, leads from the basement to the garret and is located in the center of the building.

The corridors are heated by a furnace, and hot water for the bath-rooms is supplied by a boiler and heating apparatus in the basement. The basement is divided into coal and fuel bins, a furnace room, and large provision cellar, with cemented floors. One-half of the garret, which extends over the whole building and its connections, is divided into store-rooms, one for each suite of The inside walls and ceilings are finished in plaster of Paris; the wood-work is painted a very light drab color, and the whole interior, being remarkably well lighted, presents a very bright and cheerful appearance.

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What more appropriate text could have been selected to commemorate the opening of the new, than that appointed for the dedication of the old building in 1768?

A JOURNEY

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Bethlehem and Nazareth,

IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1815,

DESCRIBED BY

GOTTHOLD BENJAMIN REICHEL

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN MS. BY HELEN BELL.

A JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM AND NAZARETH IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1815.

ON the 11th of September, 1815, we, that is, the Brethren Jacob Blum,' John Vogler and Gotthold Reichel, left Friedenstadt in order to go to Pennsyl

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'Jacob Blum, born September 24, 1781, in the Inn at Bethabara, N. C., of which his parents had charge, at a suitable age entered the service of the congregation at Salem, N. C., as clerk in the store, then under charge of Conrad Kremser. When the store was sold he became the purchaser. He died February 7, 1847.

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* John Vogler, born at Friedland, N. C., November 20, 1783, as a young man removed to Salem, six miles distant, where he became a very successful silversmith. He was one of the most prominent promoters of the Sunday-school cause in Forsyth County. He died June 15, 1881, the oldest member that the congregation at Salem has ever had. He was the maternal grandfather of the Fries family of Salem.

3 Gotthold Benjamin Reichel, second son of the Rt. Rev. Charles Gotthold Reichel, and his first wife Anna Dorothea, m. n. Maasz, was born at Nazareth, Pa., October 4, 1785. He was trained at Nazareth Hall, of which his father was the first Principal and actual founder. In 1802 he removed with his parents to Salem, N. C., and became assistant in the boys' school. In 1806 he became principal teacher; in 1809, chaplain of the unmarried men and assistant to his father; and in December, 1811, was ordained Deacon, by the Rt. Rev. John Herbst. On being appointed, in 1816, to the principalship of Salem Female Academy he was married to Henrietta Fredericka, daughter of Dr. Samuel Benjamin Vierling. In 1829 he became chief minister at Salem, N. C., and was ordained a Presbyter at Lititz, Pa., by the Rt. Rev. Andrew Benade. In March of the same year his wife died, after bearing him nine children, four sons and five daughters. Two sons died in early childhood. The seven who survived the mother were Clara C., who married the Rev. F. F. Hagen; the Rev. Edward H.; Sophia C., who married Comenius Senseman; the Rev. William C.; Angelica W., who married the Rev. J. F. Warman; Amelia C., who married the Rev. Joseph H. Kummer; and Ernestine T. In April, 1830, Bro. Reichel was married to Mary Parsons. He was a fine musician, and frequently served as organist when not on duty in the pulpit. He died at Salem, N. C., December 20, 1833.

• Friedenstadt, "the city of peace,"

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Salem, N. C.

vania, partly on business and partly on a visit and for recreation. It was especially important for me to receive permission to do so, because I had cherished the hope that much pleasure would come therefrom, and that my impaired health might be greatly benefited.

After an affectionate leavetaking from many dear ones, we mounted our well-packed horses at about seven o'clock. Brother Bagge gave us his pleasant company as far as Germantown, the county town, which, court week having begun, was much frequented by the neighboring inhabitants. The time of waiting for "second breakfast" passed pleasantly with several friends and acquaintances. We enjoyed the meal at Mr. Bowman's, who unites the different professions of innkeeper and physician. We could only judge of his talents in the first capacity by the invigoration and refreshment which his table afforded us. We left his house in the early afternoon, after we had been joined by a new companion, Abraham Conrad,' of Bethania. His spirited and well-built mare, the favorite subject of his conversation, and the object of his most particular care, excited

5 Charles Frederick Bagge, born July 30, 1775, at Salem, N. C., was a merchant who for a number of years kept a store in a village (called after him Charlestown but now known as Waughtown), several miles from Salem. The last years of his life were spent in Salem, where for many years he escorted visitors through the church buildings. His daughter was married to the late Rt. Rev. Henry A. Shultz. He died at Salem, August 15, 1837. ❝ A young man named Bitting, sent from General Greene's army, about the year 1781, to forage in the Townfork Hill, near the Dan River, was so well pleased with the country that upon his discharge from the army after the restoration of peace, he returned to North Carolina, took up a body of land in Stokes County, laid out a town, and called it Germantown, after his native place in Pennsylvania. This town became the county seat of Stokes County, and remained such until, in 1848, Forsyth County was set off from Stokes.

7 Abraham Conrad, born in 1784, in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Penna., emigrated to North Carolina with his parents. He became a very successful farmer. His daughter and grandchildren live near Bethania, N. C.

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