The marker pictured above marks the date and location of the beginning of the Wachovia Settlement at Bethabara, NC. The inscription is:
Wachovia
Settlement
begun
17 November
1753
There is another marker nearby which describes the history of the pictured marker.
"On November 26, 1806, this marker was erected as a memorial to the beginning of the settlement of the Unity of Brethren (Moravians) in Wachovia. It was moved here in 1850, having been placed originally at the site of the first cabin occupied buy the Brethren in 1753." (click here - to go to the post regarding the first occupied cabin in Bethabara)
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