sentences:  Most of these artifacts have been found in the Old Fields area of Ashe County.The earliest Europeans to explore Ashe County were Bishop Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg – head of the Moravian Church in America – and his associates, Timothy Horsefield, Joseph Mueller, Henry Antes, Johan Merck, and Herman Loesch.Bishop Spangenberg wrote about his journey in Ashe in a diary that has been preserved by the Moravian church.