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Gnadenhütten (German: huts of grace), the name of settlements founded by the German Moravian Church. The word was transliterated as Canatanheat by the missionary John Brainerd in his account.

The proper German spelling without the umlaut ü is Gnadenhuetten. American usage settled for Gnadenhutten, even though 19th century sources had used the umlaut.

Two settlements in the North American colonies were named Gnadenhutten. Each suffered massacres, called the Gnadenhütten massacre:

  • Gnadenhütten, Pennsylvania, in 1755 during the Seven Years' War (called the French and Indian War in the US)
  • Gnadenhütten, Ohio, in 1782 during the American Revolutionary War

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