Bake Oven 1753
(reconstructed)
The Brothers, tired of eating unleavened "journey cakes" (johnnycakes), began building an oven to bake bread almost immediately upon arrival. Although once found throughout the thirteen colonies, no original oven currently exists; however, there is a photograph taken in the early 20th century of one that was in the nearby Moravian community of Friedland. This interpretive reconstruction is made of wattle and daub (interwoven sticks covered with clay and straw) and is of Scandinavian design.
"We began to build a bake-oven, so we might again have bread, of which we have had little lately."
Bethabara Diary, November 19, 1753
Marker can be reached from Bethabara Road, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
