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Through little known information about the New Bern Smallpox Contraband Hospital, we know it was founded January of 1864 in the middle of the Civil War. The term contraband comes from when Union General Benjamin Butler refused to capture the salves Shepard Mallory, Frank Barker, and James Townsend and send them back to their masters. This was when the term contraband was meant to refer to slaves. Through the use of the term contraband this defined the slaves as property so they could not be returned back to their masters. Not long after the Union’s occupation of New Bern there was the spread of Smallpox and Yellow Fever. When servants and captured slaves began to contract Smallpox Vincent Colyer requested General Burnside to create a hospital to take care and vaccinate the “contraband”. This led to the creation of the Contraband Smallpox Hospital of New Bern.
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This article’s main focus is on the U.S. Revenue Cutter Pamlico which was later named the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Pamlico. The first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton believed that a robust process of collecting revenue was important for the early nation. In the first rendition of this program was the Revenue-Marine which was latter name the Revenue Cutter Services. These were U.S ships tasked with collecting and transporting the nations revenue. One of the first ships that was a Revenue Cutter was the Diligence.
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This article is about the purchase of the Maola Milk and Ice Cream Co. in New Bern by Harvey Barns from F. E. Mayo, from Washington NC. The name of the company Maola came from the original owners first name combined with Coca-Cola because the original owner owned a Coca-Cola bottling company. The Maola company was struggling in its early years because of a lack of capital but this did not make Harvey Barns to give up. Through the sheer will and his sales abilities Harvey was able to inspire his employees to help push the company through this difficult time. The next obstacle that Harvey Barns was faced with was opening the first milk pasteurizing plant in the four-county region of Craven, Pamlico, Carteret, Beaufort counties. Through the help of the local women’s and health associations to educate the locals on the benefits of pasteurized milk.
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This article will be discussing the Barbour Boat Works of New Bern and their role of building wardships for the United States Navy and the Royal British Navy during World War II. The Barbour Boat Works was building wooden warships to help out in the efforts of World War II. Some of these ships were used in rescue and salvage efforts. The British government sent specific specifications to the U.S. Navy on rescue and salvage ships under the Lend-Lease Act. The U.S Navy would end up building 31 ships through the work for 6 different shipyards one being the Barbour Boat Works and 6 of these ships were sent to the British Navy while the other 21 ships were put into use by the U.S Navy. Two ships that came out of the Barbour Boat Works were named the HMS American Salvor and the HMS Boston Salvor. Two other uses for ships during this time was as Net Laying and Mine Yard Sweeping.
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