Program for the Bicentennial Festival for the First Provincial Congress in August of 1974. Included within the program is a list of events and times and locations as well as a map of Downtown New Bern.
First Provincial Congress Bicentennial Parade Program description. Each float scheduled specifies a specific event throughout New Bern's colonial past and becoming a state.
Reprint of an article detailing the creation of Good Shepherd Hospital in New Bern, North Carolina. The article was reprinted from the August 16, 1930, issue of The Living Church. [The reprint incorrectly lists the issue as August 23, 1930.]
The Good Shepherd Hospital, opened in 1938 for the Black Community, had been a functioning hospital until 1963. Good Shepherd is being compared and contrasted fiscally with eighteen other hospitals in the surrounding area. There is also an important…
A blank receipt from Mother's Coal and Fuel Company. Mother's Coal and Fuel Company does not show up until the 1914-1915 New Bern City Directory leading to the conclusion of the business not running until after 1912. This receipt should date between…
A pamphlet commemorating the opening of the new Craven County Hospital building in 1963. The original hospital, St. Luke’s in downtown New Bern, was purchased by the county from a group of nuns from New Jersey in 1962. The new facility was built to…