Wachovia Historical Society

11/29/2022

During the Christmas Market on Saturday in Salem Square, the greenery will be hung on the Square fence at noon. Please join in with the preparations.

11/29/2022

A Moravian Market for You!

Salem Square
649 South Main Street, Winston-Salem

December 3rd, 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.

Pyramid trees, ongoing advent wreath and greenery workshops, woven baskets, hand-decorated linens, cards featuring paintings by Gail Morris and Astra Strobel, Christmas and Moravian creations crafted by Lynn Waggoner and other Moravian women, Christmas music, and much more! Sponsored by the Moravian Music Foundation, Unity Women’s Desk, and Wachovia Historical Society

11/21/2022

A Moravian Market for You!

Salem Square
649 South Main Street, Winston-Salem

December 3rd, 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.

Pyramid trees, ongoing advent wreath and greenery workshops, woven baskets, hand-decorated linens, cards featuring paintings by Gail Morris and Astra Strobel, Christmas and Moravian creations crafted by Lynn Waggoner and other Moravian women, Christmas music, and much more! Sponsored by the Moravian Music Foundation, Unity Women’s Desk, and Wachovia Historical Society

11/18/2022

Timeline photos

SALEM WALK

We have new opportunities for Salem Walk coming up: Sunday afternoon, November 20 (1:30 - 3:30) and Sunday afternoons December 4 and 11 if enough people sign up (1:30 - 3:30).

“Salem Walk” is an in-person opportunity to learn about three people enslaved by Moravians in Salem
between 1771 and 1860. Stories about Sambo/Abraham, Cathy, and Phoebe will be shared by walking to places where they lived, worked, and are buried. After gathering at Home, participants will split into groups, each group focusing on the life of one
individual. Discussion and worship will follow. The experience will take approximately two hours.

Salem Walk is sponsored by the Moravian Team for Racial, Cultural, and Ethnic
Reconciliation.

Dates:
Sunday, November 20 1:30 PM
December: December 4 and/or December 11, depending on registration (also at 1:30)

Pre-registration is required.
• Register by emailing the Moravian Team for Reconciliation: [email protected]
• Provide your name, email, and contact information.
• Provide the date you plan to attend.
• You’ll receive more specific information near the date of the walk.
• If we don’t have enough sign up on a particular date to have the Walk, we will
contact you to reschedule at another date.

If you have further questions, please email [email protected] or contact Betsy Bombick.

Please be prepared for a lot of walking, some of it on uneven ground. We will cancel if it israining

05/21/2021

Wachovia Historical Society Provides Connections to Moravian Culture

Check out this recent article on the Wachovia Historical Society - as the oldest historical society in North Carolina, we continue to proudly focus on our important mission. https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__journalnow.com_winstonsalemmonthly_wachovia-2Dhistorical-2Dsociety-2Dprovides-2Dconnections-2Dto-2Dmoravian-2Dculture_article-5F6e5ae814-2Da9e9-2D11eb-2D80cc-2D0b208caff996.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=B59cI67tsxs8kYfhefzMEyyf9liYsKgW3dLcYmW_PbE&r=vZYrU26eaBI3YRcdgPfiSl3tUs_1msApnnS4SFhAdQw&m=vkE7PgH7IxJBi7ZKRsQb_mSp31FVA66un-9pH-Bseb4&s=6KFhsZIYBk-hwwVgCMPxirzC2QYG0oMCbZYxtL1H6fk&e=

Paula Locklair pauses to admire a small tin basket on a wooden shelf next to other tin items like lanterns and candle holders.

10/13/2020

Annual Meeting and Speaker: Tuesday Oct. 20th. Prelude at 7:15pm, Meeting begins at 7:30p.m -- ZOOM. Rev. Dr. C. Daniel Crews will speak on the topic "Wachovia Characters: Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh"
Youtube link for meeting: https://youtu.be/GAgZBUWsMWs

10/13/2019

Free talk on the Revolutionary War's effect on Bethania after the Battle of Kings' Mountain.
Tuesday Oct. 15 at 7:00pm (preludes), Speaker and meeting at 7:30.
Old Salem Visitor's Center
FREE Admission

09/16/2019

Here's a special event that friends of the Wachovia Historical Society will want to know about!

The Liberian Organization of the Piedmont and Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission will unveil the Liberia, Africa and Salem Historic Marker celebrating the historic ties between Salem and Liberia on Saturday, September 21 at 10 am. The marker unveiling will take place at 1191 Free Street, the intersection of Free and Liberia streets in Happy Hill. Please join us.

The painting, Salem from the Southeast ca. 1840 by Daniel Welfare, is part of the Collection of the Wachovia Historical Society. In the right foreground, the Schumann Plantation house is depicted shortly after 23 formerly enslaved and free African Americans left Salem and the Plantation to emigrate to Millsberg, Liberia.

09/11/2019

The board made a brief tour of of the Society's collection (note not everything photoraphed is WHS). Here's one of the photos. We saw a french horn dated 1780s

08/28/2019

Wachovia Historical Society updated their business hours.

Wachovia Historical Society updated their business hours.

07/25/2019

New partner on DigitalNC, Wachovia Historical Society

We are honored to be working with North Carolina Digital Heritage Center!

Several new scrapbooks have been digitized and added to DigitalNC, courtesy of our first-time partner, the Wachovia Historical Society. These four scrapbooks are the first batch from Wachovia. Dating from 1836 to 1941, these scrapbooks contain …

05/25/2019

In case you missed it, here's the latest Wachovia Historical Society newsletter!

01/07/2019

2019 Board of Directors
President – I. B. Southerland
Vice President – Chris Hartley
Secretary – Kirk Sanders
Treasurer – Richard Starbuck

10/02/2018

2017 Wachovia Historical Society Annual Meeting:
Brad Rauschenberg, received the Archie Davis Award. Pictured with Peggy Dodson, President of WHS. For a list of the award recipients, see: http://www.wachoviahistoricalsociety.org/events/davisaward.html

09/27/2018

Wachovia Historical Society updated their phone number.

Wachovia Historical Society updated their phone number.

09/27/2018

123rd Annual Meeting of the Wachovia Historical Society
Date: October 16, 2018
Time: 7:00pm prelude; 7:30pm meeting
Free and open to the public

Dr. Kevin Cherry, Deputy Secretary of NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources will give a talk about how the Town of Salem fits into the broader historical context of North Carolina (the Colony) in 1766.