University of North Carolina Greensboro - Pine Needles Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Book Two

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0; 7 ' OEHOLD — America! Significantly tapping the globe D with his cane, the wise old professor painb for his klassen a vivid picture of the nev country, while here and there a bright-eyed fraulein or knabe listens eagerly. The Germans came to North Carolina about 1 700, settling in the Piedmont section of the state in the counties of Orange, Rowan, Guilford, Burke, Cabarrus, Davidson, Stan- ley, Catawba, Alamance, and Forsyth. These thoughtful and conservative immigrants added untold wealth to the state; their religious and educational contributions are, perhaps, most noteworthy. Bishop Augustus Gottlieb Spangenburg planned Wacho- via, which is the typical German settlement. Around this has grown up the city of Winston-Salem and the famous old Salem College. The churches — Moravian, Lutheran, and German Reformed — the schools, and the college have been closely allied. We can never forget the conservative element in our state, nor innumerable names which stand out and which will be passed down to our descendants; among these may be mentioned Sidney Finger, Robert F. Hale, Stephen D. Ramseur, the Schencks, the Frieses, the Holts, and the Reinhardts.