sentences:  Graceham, Maryland was founded as a Moravian Community on October 8, 1758, organized by Bishop Matthew Hehl.Later, colonies were also founded in North Carolina, where Moravians led by Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg purchased from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.This large tract of land was named "die Wachau," or Wachovia, after one of Zinzendorf's ancestral estates on the Danube River in Austria.