Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
In 1741, David Nitschmann and Count Zinzendorf led a small community to found a mission in the colony of Pennsylvania. The mission was established on Christmas Eve, and was named Bethlehem, after the Biblical town in Judea. There, they ministered to the Algonquian Lenape. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is today the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania. In 1772, the first civilized settlement of what later became Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania occurred when Reverend John Ettwein, a Moravian missionary, arrived there with a band of 241 Christianized Delaware Indians.