Historical Sketch. Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies. Bethlehem.
Penna. Founded 1785. * Bethlehem, Pa.: Moravian Publication Office,
1876.
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* In his introduction to the fourth edition of A
History of the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies at Bethlehem,
Pa., (1901) J. Mortimer Levering points out that a girls school
was established in 1742 in Germantown and transferred to Bethlehem in
1743. While maintaining a day school for older girls in Bethlehem, the
boarding school operations were moved to Nazareth in 1745. In 1749 the
boarding school was returned to Bethlehem. In 1751, space constraints
and growing enrollment forced authorities to accept only daughters of
Moravian church members. In 1785 the school was reorganized to accept
Moravian and non-Moravian students.