For more information about Bethlehem’s early years through 1844, visit the Bethlehem Digital History Project web site (BDHP).
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4 May 1742
Precursor to Moravian College established as a girls school in Germantown, PA. Moves to the Bell House in Bethlehem in 1749.
19 July 1742
Boys school established. Moves into the newly built Brethren’s House in 1748, relocates in 1755 to the newly built Familienhaus, and again in 1759, merging with the boys school in Nazareth.
1763
1773
1777
1777
April 1778
The Moravian Sisters of Bethlehem present Casimir Pulaski with a banner honoring his service to the Revolutionary cause.
1800
1806
1807
1822
1826
1829
1830
1836
1845
1845
1846
1846
8 April 1857
1865
1867
1869
1870
1872
17 October 1873
1882
10 September 1886
1888
1891
1893
1894
1898
1899
1904
1918
1 July 1919
5 September 1922
1925
1930
1937
January 1941
24-28 March 1941
8 November 1961
1966
1967
For more information about the sculpture, “Symbol of Progress” in the City Center visit this page.
1972
7 July 1973
1974
1978
1984
1991
1995
2001
2003
2005
2006
2009
2011
Blue Herons, a new sculpture by Virginia Abbot, is dedicated on site, along with garden of native plants.
2016
2017
2021
2022
2022
For more information about Bethlehem’s early years through 1844, visit the Bethlehem Digital History Project web site (BDHP).
Excerpted in part from: Cressman, Austin M. Historical Bethlehem 1741-1950. c1941.
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