Video: 'Christmas Created Bethlehem'
In 1741, on Christmas Eve, a little band of Moravian settlers gathered in a crude log cabin ...
In 1741, on Christmas Eve, a little band of Moravian settlers gathered in a crude log cabin, which they had built on the banks of the Monocacy Creek, near where it joins the Lehigh River. The settlers had gathered in this, their first house (now the site of the Hotel Bethlehem), to worship as was the custom of their faith. The singing of the old Moravian hymn, “Not Jerusalem, Lowly Bethlehem!” so inspired them and their patron-leader Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf, that they decided to name their New World home … Bethlehem. In 1938, the Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce decided to claim an alternate moniker for its bustling community of industry and 62,000 people – The Christmas City. This year, Bethlehem commemorated the 75th anniversary of …
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