Old Salem Pedestrian Bridge
by Sharon Williams Eng
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Old Salem Pedestrian Bridge
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Sharon Williams Eng
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Photograph - Photography
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During the Christmas holidays, the Old Salem pedestrian bridge is decorated with an array of Moravian stars hanging from the ceiling. It's an inviting entrance for visitors to the historic site.
Old Salem is a historic district of Winston-Salem, North Carolina (NC) that was originally settled by the Moravian community in 1766. Salem was originally settled by members of the Moravian Church, a Protestant denomination that first began in 1457, out of the followers of John Huss (Jan Hus, 1369–1415) in the Kingdom of Bohemia and Moravia, now part of the Czech Republic. The historic area now features a museum and gardens with restored and reconstructed buildings, staffed by living-history interpreters, present visitors with a view of Moravian life in the 18th and 19th centuries.
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers website, the Old Salem Pedestrian Bridge provides a pedestrian overpass over the Old Salem Bypass (Highway 52) at Old Salem, site of North Carolina's first Moravian community. The structure is located approximately mid-block between Walnut Street and Salem Avenue, adjacent to, and immediately south of the new extension of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. It is the first covered bridge built in North Carolina in nearly a quarter century, and is one of only three in the State. Old Salem, the restored 18th Century Moravian Museum Village, is a historic district which is included in the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark.
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November 27th, 2022
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