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This Month in New Bern History

  • This Month in New Bern, March 2019
    What Happened in New Bern in March
    By Claudia Houston, New Bern Historical Society
    The Battle of New Bern took place on March 14, 1862.  Of the many stories of the brave Union and Confederate soldiers who fought that day, one of the most interesting is that of 21-year-old student Frazar Stearns.  Stearns was a member of the Amherst College Class of … Read more

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We had another full house at last week's Lunch & Learn! Thank you to all who attended and to our very interesting speaker, Dr. Robert Ainsley. Dr. Ainsley, a member of the @New Bern Chapter Sons of the American Revolution, and retired Executive Director of the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) e-Learning and Technology Center, spoke about the 1st and 2nd Provincial Congress held in New Bern and our role in the response to the Intolerable Acts of 1774. Another very interesting Lunch & Learn!
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Here are some more images of the wonderful homes you'll see on our Heritage Homes Tour April 12-13 AND another CONTEST with a chance to win tickets! All you have to do to enter is like AND comment on this post by midnight Friday. We'll choose a winner at random. If you would like to share, we would be tickled, 'though we can't ask you to.

Here is the Turnbull House in Riverside, built in 1925; a Herbert Woodley Simpson design.

The David F. Jarvis House on Pollock Street was built in 1903. Jarvis was leading and popular merchant of "high class dry goods and notions."

The John M. Aberly House in DeGraffenried was built in 1940.
We hope you enjoy these as much as we do! Are you looking forward to the Tour?

Thank you to photographers Norm McCullough for Turnbull and Melvin and Kelvin Kester for Jarvis and Aberly. To learn more and to see an interactive map of the Tour with photos go to
https://newbernhistorical.org/homes-garden-tour/
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