Bethania Mill

Surveyor Christian Philip Gottleib Reuter designed Bethania to withstand the challenges and dangers of the often hostile frontier landscape during the tumultuous years of the French and Indian Wars. Borrowing from town designs used in Medieval Europe, Reuter clustered the individual home lots in the center of the 2,500 acres that comprised the Bethania and surrounded these residential lots with land segregated into orchard lots, bottom land lots, and upland lots. The town included houses, tradesman shops, a church, school, barns, and gardens. Now more than 250 years later, historic Bethania is the only example of a European style “open field” agricultural village remaining in North Carolina. This Town Plan, and many of the historic Moravian-influenced buildings of Bethania, has been preserved to the present. An agricultural and trades community by design, Bethania exemplifies Old World planning and New World adaptation. Bethania’s 500-acre Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has also received the highly-respected designation of National Historic Landmark.This is a rare opportunity to be part of a historical landmark that has become a mainstay of Bethania. Located just 9 miles North of downtown Winston-Salem, Bethania Mill has the distinction of being on the National Register of Historic Places; however, its full renovation in 2008 and additional updates in 2020 have ushered the property into the modern age. The ±15,247 SF property features both professional offices and an event space, including FF&E for functions for approximately 120. This specialty asset captures a variety of possibilities for usage.