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==Background== Moravian Falls takes its name from a [[Moravian Falls|waterfall]] in the [[foothill]]s of the [[Brushy Mountains (North Carolina)|Brushy Mountains]]. The area was originally settled by the Owen family in about 1750. In 1754, the Moravian Church purchased approximately 9000 acres of land which now lies under the nearby [[W. Kerr Scott Dam and Reservoir]]. However, there is no record that the Moravians ever attempted to establish a settlement in the area during the 18th century. Today the waterfall is a local tourist attraction. Beginning in the late 1800s and for several decades thereafter, Moravian Falls was an oddly significant publishing hub, with several local newspapers published there being distributed nationally and claiming circulations in the hundreds of thousands. The ''Yellow Jacket'', the ''Fool-Killer'', and the ''Lash'' were the leading papers, but more than a dozen were published in the tiny town. At its peak, the ''Yellow Jacket'' claimed a circulation of 1 million copies, though rivals estimated a number more like 250,000 β which was still more than twice the Sunday circulation of any other newspaper in the South.<ref name="jsto_ABit">{{Cite web |title=A Bitter Row on a Backwater Newspaper Row: The Curious Case of the Moravian Falls, North Carolina, Press Phenomenon |author=Alex Leidholdt |work=The North Carolina Historical Review |date= |access-date=8 August 2021 |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/44113805}}</ref> [[Wilkes Central High School]], and Central Wilkes Middle School, are located in Moravian Falls. The two schools are the largest and most ethnically diverse high school and middle school respectively in the Wilkes County public school system. The [[Benjamin Hubbard House]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2009.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
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