Hans Wagner, a hunter, trapper and miller, and his teenage son built a cabin, of which this is a faithful replica, in 1752, but left for new land on the Yadkin River, when the Moravians purchased the Wachovia Tract, of some 100,000 acres.
On November 17, 1753, the first 15 brothers found the abandoned cabin where they lived until 1755, when the Brothers' House was completed. Refugees used the cabin during the French and Indian War. The village of Bethabara grew up around it.
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From the Bethabara Diary, November 17, 1753:
"We ... cut a road for two and a half miles to the little house that the Brethren found yesterday. We reached it in the evening, and at once took possession of it, finding it large enough that we could all lie down around the walls."
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