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The area was called by the Indians "Macungie," meaning "feeding place of the bears." Settlement began in the 1730s, and the Shelter House was erected in 1734. In 1761, Moravians established a "Gemein-Ort," or congregational village, and named it after the biblical town of Emmaus.
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Emmaus, Pennsylvania · United States
