I’m amazed that it took until your post for someone to provide an accurate history.
Very few members of the Moravian sect are actually ethnically Moravian, but instead tend to be German. Ethnic Moravians are for the most part Catholic.
Another side note is that the name Wachovia (as is in the bank) derives from Moravian history.
Lastly, the earliest examples of what we call classical music in the English colonies in Nort America were in the Moravian communities.
It's the origin of the Southerm Province of the Moravian Church in the United States.
Count von Zinzendorf's ancestral home and estate was named der Wachau. In 1753 Moravians bought a 100,000 acre tract of land in the piedmont backcountry of North Carolina. They called it der Wachau (now “Wachovia”) in honor of Count von Zinzendorf, who in 1722 had offered them refuge on his lands in Saxony and had become the patron of their church.
The first North Carolina arrivals walked there from Pennsylvania, and built a small village surrounding by a wooden paling fort, called Bethabara, Hebrew for "House Of Passage." They eventually built four other towns, one of which was Salem, founded in 1766.
Salem remained a church-governed town for over 100 years. In 1913 it merged with Winston to become Winston-Salem.