New Bern, North Carolina "New Bern"
New Bern, North Carolina New Bern City Hall New Bern City Hall Flag of New Bern, North Carolina Location of New Bern, North Carolina Location of New Bern, North Carolina State North Carolina Named for Bern, Switzerland New Bern / nu b rn/ is a town/city in Craven County, North Carolina, United States.
As of the 2010 census it had a populace of 29,524, which had risen to an estimated 30,242 as of 2013. It is the governmental center of county of Craven County and the principal town/city of the New Bern Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It is positioned at the confluence of the Trent and the Neuse rivers, near the North Carolina coast.
It lies 112 miles (180 km) east of Raleigh, 87 miles (140 km) northeast of Wilmington, and 162 miles (261 km) south of Norfolk.
New Bern is the place of birth of Pepsi Cola.
New Bern was settled in 1710 by Swiss and Palatine German immigrants.
The new colonists titled the settlement after Bern, the capital of Switzerland and hometown of their prestige Christoph von Graffenried.
New Bern is the second-oldest European-American colonial town in North Carolina (after Bath). It served as the capital of the North Carolina colonial government, then briefly as the state capital.
After the American Revolution, New Bern became wealthy and quickly advanced a rich cultural life.
At one time New Bern was called "the Athens of the South," famous for its Masonic Temple and Athens Theater.
New Bern has four historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places; their various contributing buildings include residences, stores and churches dating back to the early eighteenth century.
The historic districts contain many of the city's 2,000 crape myrtles its official flower and advanced plant nurseries.
New Bern has two "Local Historic Districts", a municipal zoning overlay that affords legal protection to the exteriors of New Bern's irreplaceable historic structures.
These areas furnish much of New Bern's unique charm, appeal to retirees and tradition tourism, and contribute to the city's economic success.
The Local Historic Districts, while vitally meaningful to New Bern, comprise only 2.43% of New Bern's 27-square-mile area.
There is considerable region available for new development.
Historical marker designating New Bern View of New Bern in 1864 John Wright Stanly House (1780s) in New Bern Varying complex cultures of indigenous citizens s had lived along the waterways of North Carolina for thousands of years before Europeans explored the area.
New Bern was first settled by Europeans in 1710 by Swiss and Palatine German immigrants under the leadership of Christoph von Graffenried, Franz Louis Michel and John Lawson.
They titled the settlement after Bern, von Graffenried's home town that would later turn into the capital of Switzerland.
This became the first permanent seat of the colonial government of North Carolina.
After the Revolution, New Bern became the state capital.
During the 19th-century Federal period, New Bern became the biggest city in North Carolina, advanced on the trade of goods and slaves associated with plantation agriculture. After Raleigh was titled the state capital, New Bern rebuilt its economy by expanding on trade via shipping routes to the Caribbean and New England. It was part of the Triangle Trade in sugar, slaves and desired goods.
In 1862 amid the early stages of the Civil War, the region was the site of the Battle of New Bern.
The Union Army set up the Trent River contraband camp at New Bern to home the refugees.
The Army appointed Horace James, a Congregational chaplain from Massachusetts, as the "Superintendent of Negro Affairs for the North Carolina District." In addition to the Trent River camp, James supervised evolution of the offshore Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, which was intended to be self-supporting. Beginning in 1863, a total of nearly 4,000 freedmen from North Carolina enlisted in the United States Colored Troops to fight with the Union for their permanent freedom, including 150 men from the colony on Roanoke Island. Due to the continuous occupation by the Union troops, New Bern avoided some of the destruction of the war years.
By the 1870s the lumber trade was developing as the chief part of New Bern's economy.
The state council defined the town/city and county as part of North Carolina's 2nd congressional precinct which, as former plantation territory, held a concentration of the state's black residents.
By 1890 New Bern had turn into the biggest lumber center in North Carolina and one of the biggest in all of the South.
During this time, as many as 16 lumber mills were running and employing hundreds of men from New Bern and the area.
The competing nature of the lumber barons, the abundance of lumber and craftsmen, led to the assembly in New Bern of some of the finest homes in the South, many of which have survived.
The town/city has four National Historic Districts and two small-town ones, which have helped preserve the character of the architecture.
The Downtown Local Historic District is 368.64 acres (149.18 ha) or 0.576 square miles (1.49 km2); the Riverside Local Historic District covers 51.94 acres (21.02 ha) or 0.081 square miles (0.21 km2).
In 2005, a segment of NBC's The Today Show noted that New Bern was one of the best places in the United States to retire.
Barber School, Baxter Clock, Bellair, Blades House, Bryan House and Office, Cedar Grove Cemetery, Cedar Street Recreation Center, Centenary Methodist Church, Central Elementary School, Christ Episcopal Church and Parish House, Coor-Bishop House, Coor-Gaston House, Craven Terrace, De - Graffenried Park Historic District, Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, First Baptist Church, First Church of Christ, Scientist, First Missionary Baptist Church, First Presbyterian Church and Churchyard, Ghent Historic District, Gull Harbor, Harvey Mansion, Hawks House, William Hollister House, Thomas Jerkins House, Jerkins-Duffy House, Jones-Jarvis House, Ulysses S.
Mace House, Masonic Temple and Theater, Mount Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, New Bern Battlefield Site, New Bern Historic District, New Bern Municipal Building, New Bern National Cemetery, Rhem-Waldrop House, Riverside Historic District, Rue Chapel AME Church, Slover-Bradham House, Eli Smallwood House, Isaac H.
Smith, Jr., House, Benjamin Smith House, Smith-Whitford House, St.
Stanly House, John Wright Stanly House, Stevenson House, Isaac Taylor House, Tisdale-Jones House, and York-Gordon House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Aerial view of New Bern (center left) showing the confluence of the Trent (bottom center) and Neuse (left to right) rivers.
17, and NC 55, bypassing New Bern to the south through the unincorporated improve of James City.
New Bern is positioned in the center of Craven County at 35 6 33 N 77 4 9 W (35.109070, 77.069111). It is sited at the junction of the Trent and Neuse rivers, two tidal waterways.
Route 17 pass through the city, merging briefly as a four-lane expressway passing south of the town/city center.
US 70 leads west 33 miles (53 km) to Kinston and southeast 35 miles (56 km) to Morehead City near the Atlantic Ocean.
US 17 leads southwest 37 miles (60 km) to Jacksonville, North Carolina, and crosses the Neuse River on a new bridge to lead north 36 miles (58 km) to Washington, North Carolina.
New Bern is positioned in North Carolina's Inner Banks region.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 29.7 square miles (76.9 km2), of which 28.2 square miles (73.1 km2) is territory and 1.4 square miles (3.7 km2), or 4.87%, is water. New Bern experiences a humid subtropical climate typical of the Atlantic coastal plain.
Climate data for New Bern, North Carolina Coastal Carolina Regional Airport is a enhance airport positioned 3 miles (5 km) south of the central company precinct of New Bern.
According to the 2012 American Community Survey for the City of New Bern, the populace of the region was approximately 30,316 (95% urban, 5% rural) citizens ; a 31.1% increase in growth.
The City of New Bern 2010 Enumeration knowledge shows the populace of the region was approximately 29,524 citizens .
From 2000 to 2010, the New Bern town/city population expansion percentage was 27.7% (or from 23,128 citizens to 29,524 citizens ).
22.8% of the New Bern town/city residents were under 18 years of age.
Enumeration 2010 race data for New Bern town/city include the ethnic breakdown percentages of 57.0 white, 32.8% black, 3.6% Asian, 5.8% Hispanic and less than 1% Native American, Also, there were 14,471 housing units in the City of New Bern, 88.2% of which were occupied housing units.
In the year 2000, the town/city the populace was spread out with 23.9% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 27.0% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 17.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
University of Mount Olive at New Bern New Bern High School New Bern Christian Academy 99.5 FM WXNR- New Rock/Alternative Jules Verne's 1896 novel Face au Drapeau (Face the Flag) featured New Bern as the place where one of that story's chief characters is committed to an asylum by the US government. Title page of the 1702 Journal of Franz Ludwig Michel of Bern, Switzerland, a founder of New Bern, North Carolina Battle, postbellum mayor of New Bern Battle, first black policeman in New York City Gary Downs, NFL player for the New York Giants, Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos; assistant coach East Tennessee State Donna Hutchinson, former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, born in New Bern in 1949 Edward Stanly, son of John Stanly, congressman 1837 1843, appointed military governor of North Carolina in 1862 Adam Warren, primary league baseball player for the New York Yankees and presently the Chicago Cubs.
George Henry White, attorney, banker, last of four black congressmen from North Carolina in the 19th century; next was not propel until 1992 a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): New Bern city, North Carolina".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013 (PEPANNRES): North Carolina Incorporated Places".
North Carolina Architecture.
Christoph Von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern.
Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., Raleigh, North Carolina.
North Carolina Architecture.
"The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony", provided by National Park Service, at North Carolina Digital History: LEARN NC, accessed November 11, 2010 "New Bern NC".
"Weather Channel: Historical Weather for New Bern, NC".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to New Bern, North Carolina.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for New Bern.
New Bern Sun Journal, daily journal Christoph von Graffenried's account of the beginning of New Bern New Bern, North Carolina Attractions Collier's New Encyclopedia.
The New Student's Reference Work.
New International Encyclopedia.
"New Berne".
Municipalities and communities of Craven County, North Carolina, United States
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New Bern, North Carolina - Cities in Craven County, North Carolina - Cities in North Carolina - County seats in North Carolina - Former state capitals in the United States - New Bern micropolitan region - Populated places established in 1710 - Social history of the American Civil War - Swiss-American history - Former colonial and territorial capitals in the United States - 1710 establishments in North Carolina
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