Christiansbrunn

Much of the community's 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) were also farmed and the surplus crops were used to support the Moravians’ vast missionary effort.

The community was renamed Christiansbrunn and formally dedicated on August 4, 1749, in honor of Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf, head of the Single Brothers.

The elder Zinzendorf was also expected to come to America to live and a manor house for him was constructed at the nearby Moravian community of Nazareth.

A belief among the brothers that Christian Renatus' spirit was in the spring itself was expressed in a poem of the time.

In 1757 sixteen boys from Bethlehem were sent to Christiansbrunn to learn trades that including farming, shoe making and writing (for maintaining community records).

Christian Oerter, a noted American gun maker, made long rifles there and is buried in the Moravian Cemetery outside Nazareth.

The remaining farming operations were placed in the hands of family men while "several of the deteriorated bachelors were given a mere asylum there under watchful restraint" in the words of a late nineteenth-century historian who blamed conditions in the community on alcoholism and a "decadence that became hopeless.

"[2] A visitor in 1862 recalled how the community had looked forty years earlier: "The red-tiled roofs, the solid stone masonry of most of the buildings, and the peculiar structure of others, in which the frame is filled in with mortar mixed with cut straw, denoted at once the foreign origin of its founders.

A visitor in 1914 noted that only a stone house remained of the original settlement and that even the spring was covered by a recent shed.

The stone building was the Familienhaus in which lived two married couples who oversaw the community of single brothers.