The #GnadenhuttenMassacre targeted 96 Christian #NativeAmericans on #ThisDayInHistory in 1782 in Ohio during the #AmericanRevolutionaryWar. The American militia attacked #pacifist #Lenape #Moravians, killing 39 children, 29 women, & 28 men, who prayed and sang hymns as they died.

Interesting report on an old #archival preservation technique and its challenge for #digitization.
A literal 'Spürnase' is helpful: "a faint scent of vanilla is present, a sign that the paper itself has begun to break down" 👃
https://www.moravianchurcharchives.org/digital-access/digital-collections-spotlight-52-digitization-for-preservation-pec-letter-books/
#digitalhistory
#culturalheritage
#moravianArchives
#moravians

TIL that Czechia is basically Bohemia and Moravia, and that Bohemians and Moravians are Slavic not German, and it kind of blew my little American mind. I only know "Bohemia" from the #SherlockHolmes story (and the King and his country were definitely described as "German"), but the #Moravians played a big part in settling the #LehighValley in Eastern Pennsylvania, where I grew up, and I always thought of them as "Pennsylvania Germans". I knew that "Germany" wasn't really a country until the 1800s (after PA was settled), and that "German" was used rather loosely before then, but it didn't really hit home, so to speak. I now wonder how much of my "Pennsylvania German" ancestry is actually Slavic. (Though I can trace at least part of that ancestry back to the Palitanate migration which was from southwest Germany.)

This rock formation near Genadendal (South Africa, Western Cape region) was once named "Miertsching's nose", (after one of the missionaries who was in the #Arctic before).
People from Genadendal used to hike there for pleasure from time to time, having picknicks up there.
image © Unitätsarchiv Herrnhut
#Wonderklippe #Miertsching #Genadendal #Moravians #moravianmission #Herrnhuter #Sorben #brüdergemeine #19thcentury #Nordwestpassage #northwestpassage #franklinexpedition