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44570
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John Thomas Barber became principal of West Street Graded School in 1905. The school burned but was rebuilt substantially by 1908 and was considered one of the best graded school buildings in the state. Construction on J.T. Barber High School began in 1951. By 1971, it was merged through the process of integration into New Bern High School.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 31 Issue , 2024,
p12-20, il, por
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44571
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One of New Bern's most significant entrepreneurs during the 18th century, Leech arrived in North Carolina in 1750 from Philadelphia. He quickly established a large farming operation and a ferry, known as Leech's Ferry. He was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly from 1761-65 and served with the Provincial Congresses and Revolutionary War movement. He was part of teh delegation that welcomed President George Washington into New Bern in 1791.
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44574
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As early as 1893, New Bern had twelve saw and planing mills, two large shingle mills and two barrel factories One of the most significant lumber companies in the county beginning in the early 20th century was the Roper Lumber Company. It was one of the sources of New Bern's great fire in 1922.
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44578
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Beginning 1772, New Bern's Methodist Church was the primary church for African Americans in the area. Since its foundation, the Methodist movement had opposed slavery. by 1843, New Bern's Methodist Church had 1,087 members, 803 of whom were Black.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 31 Issue , 2024,
p40-51, il, bibl, f
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44577
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North Carolina began seeing the advent of photographers and photography in the 1840s. The first photographer in New Bern, James Joyner, arrived in 1843. The author provides a descriptive list of other 19th century photographers in New Bern. Only two photographs of New Bern itself are known to exist prior to 1862. These photographs record the ruins of the Craven County Courthouse after its destruction by fire on January 15, 1861.
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43495
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Free persons of color, Issac Carter, Joshua Carter William Dove and Issac Perkins of the Harlowe community appear to have started their Revolutionary War service in early May 1776. Chartered on September 3, 2016, the Patriot Issac Carter Chapter became the first and only chapter of Sons of the American Revolution comprised primarily of African American men.
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43499
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The Bank of Commerce opened in New Bern in 1859. Alonzo Thomas Jenkins was appointed its first president. John Amos Guion, cashier worked to keep the bank open during the Civil War, but it eventually succumbed in 1867. Guion continued afterwards in his same role for the National Bank of New Bern until 1886.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 28 Issue 1, 2021,
p13-22, il, por, bibl, f
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43500
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Torpedoes and mines contributed to a mass explosion that wiped out a depot an other structures at Bachelor Creek on May 26, 1864. Most contemporary sources reported around thirty men killed. Union forces had already repelled two strong Confederate attacks on New Bern earlier in 1864.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 28 Issue 1, 2021,
p24-31, il, por, map, bibl
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43501
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Gerock began his career in Raleigh in 1876 and in 1877, relocated to New Bern, where he was active until the early 1900s. He began a partnership with Ignatius W. Brock in 1891. He is known for his portrait photography and additionally his realism in the capturing of New Bern street scenes.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 28 Issue 1, 2021,
p32-47, il, por, bibl
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43503
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A native of Duplin County, Caleb Bradham invented "Brad's Drink" in a New bern pharmacy in the 1890s. In 1898, he changed the name to Pepsi-Cola. Patent for the beverage was secured in 1903. By 1909, Pepsi was being bottled and sold through franchise agreements in 250 plants in 24 states. In 1923, the business was bankrupt. It did not re-emerge to the level of its early success until after Bradhams death in 1934.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 28 Issue 1, 2021,
p48-54, il, por, f
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43504
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"In 1913, New Bern City Council had a problem on its hands. The Cedar Grove Cemetery was running out of space. This old cemetery located along Queen and George Streets in New Bern is one of the finest historical cemeteries in the state. Founded in 1800 by Christ Episcopal Church after yellow fever filled up its capus graveyard, Cedar Grove would become the final resting place of many of the city's founders and heroes."
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 28 Issue 1, 2021,
p55-64, il, f
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43507
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"The following story tells of our country’s and Craven County’s preparation for war, and three Craven County men who were caught up in the maelstrom of the country’s mood as it lurched towards war: the physician, the volunteer, and the draftee. Noted are Dr. Steven James Hawes of Dover, Wiley Clifton Bissett, and African American draftee James M. King.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 28 Issue 1, 2021,
p65-74, il, por, f
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43508
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Ceasar, a former slave and member of the local Presbyterian Church began his career as bell-ringer and sexton in 1846, serving only occasionally interrrupted for more than 60 years.
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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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