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19028
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The North Carolina History Education Center will soon include the New Bern waterfront, which has been an important part of North Carolina's commercial and recreational history.
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43583
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Betty McCain was born in Faison, NC in 1931. Since a young girl, she always found a fascination towards North Carolina's history, culture, and arts. Later in her life, McCain went on to become North Carolina Secretary of Culture and first woman to chair the democratic party during Governor Jim Hunt's administration.
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21655
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Colonial mapmaker Claude Sauthier made two maps of Tryon Palace for the British crown in 1769. These maps have been used to accurately locate missing features prior, but there are questions with regards to the formal gardens. The maps were made more than a year before Tryon Palace's completion in 1770 and shows plans for the gardens moved during construction.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 79 Issue 3, July 2002,
p327-346 , il, map, f
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21656
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This article examines the work of landscape archaeologist Morley Jeffers Williams in preparing the research needed for the restoration of Stratford Hall, Mount Vernon, and Tryon Palace, in the 1930s and 1950s.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 79 Issue 3, July 2002,
p347-372, il, por, map, f
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18975
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Staff at Tryon Palace in New Bern play a key role in preserving the state's history through education programs and the re-creation of traditions.
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18976
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David Stone is a real-life blacksmith. In an interview with Carl Herko, Stone discusses his work at Tryon Palace where he not only helps interpret North Carolina history, but actually creates as a smith as well.
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The kitchen garden at Tryon Palace measured 16,200 square feet and was enclosed by an eight-foot-high wall. It provided the governor foods of American, European, and African origin, including squash and okra. Some, like salsify, are not common today.
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3141
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Christmas tours of New Bern's Tryon Palace and other historic sites, including the John Wright Stanley House, give visitors a feel for Christmas celebrations from the 1770s onward.
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3142
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In 1798, fire destroyed Tryon Palace in New Bern, only twenty-eight years after its completion. In the 1920s, citizens began to work for its reconstruction, and on April 9, 1959, the palace opened to the public.
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27989
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Based on serendipitous finds in a Venezuela library in 1991-1992, staff members at Tryon Palace, New Bern are now engaged in an arduous effort to update our conception of what Governor Tryon’s mansion and gardens actually looked like in the eighteenth century. The discovery is based on sketches and notes by the Palace architect John Hawks.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 8 Issue 1, Nov 1995,
p22-25, il
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1795
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New Bern's Tryon Palace attracts approximately 75,000 visitors each year. The restored palace and gardens reflect the state's colonial past in impressive fashion.
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36148
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The window, located on the roof of the William B. Blades House, offered an extensive look into history. It had a bird’s eye view of the Great Fire of 1922, trio of hurricanes, Tryon Palace’s construction, the Bicentennial celebration, and election of the town’s first black mayor. Nationally famous figures referenced by this poem’s fifth grade author included Babe Ruth, President Harry S. Truman, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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1578
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History surrounds the origin, development and maintenance of Tryon Palace and its gardens in New Bern.
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A recently discovered plan of the Tryon Palace gardens in New Bern suggests that the grounds were considerably different in the 18th-century.
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760
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Recently-discovered documents that describe the government house and gardens of Tryon Palace between 1767 and 1770 have scholars abuzz.
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