Editing Moravia, Iowa (section)

==History==
Moravia is named for [[Moravian Church|the religious faith]]. Moravian families left [[Salem, North Carolina]], in 1849 to start a colony in the west. Money was sent to purchase forty acres of land for a town site by several benevolent Moravian sisters. It was their wish that town lots be sold and the money be used to build a Moravian Church. The families made the long journey to Iowa and acquired many acres of land.<ref name="MHeritage">{{cite web|url=http://moraviaia.com/content/our-heritage|title=Our Heritage|publisher=Moravia Iowa|accessdate=April 27, 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719173739/http://moraviaia.com/content/our-heritage|archivedate=July 19, 2011}}</ref>

The town site of Moravia was laid out on June 27, 1850 and was recorded July 15, 1851. The surveying was done using a pocket compass and tapeline for measuring instruments. The old ridge road from [[Unionville, Iowa]], to Moravia and west to [[Iconium, Iowa]], supplied part of the [[Mormon Trail]] of 1846 from [[Nauvoo, Illinois]], to [[Salt Lake City, Utah]].<ref name="MHeritage"/>