Lafayette

Bethlehem, PA · est. 1953

Begun in 1758, the Sun Inn quickly earned a reputation as one of the finest hostelries in the colonies, and during the Revolutionary War it welcomed a remarkable roster of patriots and military leaders passing through Bethlehem. Travelers found comfortable lodging and good food at a time when such quality was rare on American roads. The inn's guest list reads like a directory of the Revolutionary generation, making it a crossroads of the era's political and military life.

Bethlehem, PA · est. 1974

While the Polish cavalry officer Casimir Pulaski guarded this area in 1778, the Moravian women of Bethlehem stitched a crimson banner for his legion, which his horsemen carried until he fell at the Siege of Savannah in 1779. The gift became one of the Revolution's cherished legends, later immortalized in Longfellow's verse "Hymn of the Moravian Nuns." The story bound a foreign volunteer's sacrifice to the quiet devotion of a Pennsylvania religious community.

Bethlehem, PA · est. 1964

The Moravians who founded Bethlehem built this stone house in 1748 to lodge their unmarried men, and it quickly became a hive of colonial-era craft — a bell foundry, silkworm raising, and other trades that made the community largely self-sufficient. During the Revolution it sheltered wounded Continental soldiers as a military hospital, and after 1815 it opened as a girls' school before becoming part of Moravian College and a museum.

Bethlehem, PA · est. 1953

Built in 1744 and first used as a Brothers' House, this Bethlehem building soon became home to the Moravian community's unmarried women, who lived and worked here practicing the arts and crafts assigned to the sisterhood. In 1778, during the Revolutionary War, the sisters stitched the banner carried by Casimir Pulaski's cavalry legion—a piece of needlework later immortalized in American memory. The Single Sisters' choir was a distinctive feature of Moravian communal life, giving women a defined economic and spiritual role.