Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . ares north of Sweet Home, it yetis a relic that is quite attractive to the student of his- THE HEBRON MORAVIAN CHURCH. ^97 tory, in view of the knowledge of its once renownedowner, and the hospitable entertainment it furnishedpastors and bishops and others. When it had life andsoul this now hollow and ghost-harboring buildingmust have been a home as fine as Mt. Vernons man-sion. What a hubbub there must have been in it,when the illustrious owner of that Southern mansion, asthe General-in-chief of the Colonial army in revolt, senta quota of
Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley . ares north of Sweet Home, it yetis a relic that is quite attractive to the student of his- THE HEBRON MORAVIAN CHURCH. ^97 tory, in view of the knowledge of its once renownedowner, and the hospitable entertainment it furnishedpastors and bishops and others. When it had life andsoul this now hollow and ghost-harboring buildingmust have been a home as fine as Mt. Vernons man-sion. What a hubbub there must have been in it,when the illustrious owner of that Southern mansion, asthe General-in-chief of the Colonial army in revolt, senta quota of 270 Hessian prisoners from Princeton andTrenton to the sacred house of prayer, where the occu-pants of this house statedly worshipped! The writerhas recently visited this old relic when he accidentallydiscovered that it was the Kucher house. Seeing thesandstones in the second story front, the inscriptionupon which w^as illegible from a position on theground, he clambered up an old rickety portico, fromthe roof of which he clearly read the following:. niiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir 198 LANDMARKS IN THE LEBANON VALLEY. jiiiiii\«^ mini (\r) 17 X y 61 = = i KVC HER. i = BARBARA = I KVCHERIN = niiiiiiiii-uiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir. After my descent from this portico roof, I tried thefront-door latch and found it open, but nothing beyondan echo and a weird, hollow strangeness greeted us fromwithin—not even the ghost of the energetic old pioneercame to bid us w^elcome. We felt that if there was a re-lative of his still living, the same was committing anunpardonable sin for letting such a valuable prop-erty go to ruins, and for allowing the walls of this his-toric homestead, resonant wnth the voices and foot-fallsof these pious ancestors, to fall into decay, when theyshould be hung with the pictures and facts that tell itsstory of piety and hospitality. The record of Heinrich Xander is as follows : BornNov. 16, 1702. From Rimlange, out of
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