Bethabara Historic District encompasses the surviving buildings and archaeological remains of a small Moravian community, that was first settled in 1753.
Located in present-day Forsyth County, North Carolina, it is now a public park of the city of Winston-Salem.
Bethabara (from the Hebrew, meaning "House of Passage" and pronounced beth-ab-bra, the name of the traditional site of the Baptism of Jesus Christ) was a village located in what is now Forsyth County, North Carolina.
Its early settlers were noted for advanced agricultural practices, especially their medicine garden, which produced over fifty kinds of herbs.
The establishment of a central town was delayed for thirteen years because of the growing Moravian population and hundreds of refugees.
Today, what remains of the village, including the excavated foundations of the original buildings, the restored Gemeinhaus (the Bethabara Moravian Church), and the reconstructed palisade and colonial gardens, is part of Historic Bethabara Park.