"Resurgam" by Mary Bayard Clarke is a post Civil War poem about the south lifting their heads after the war being over. It was written for Confederate Memorial Day commemorations on May 10, 1878.
The gravestone and site for Mary Bayard Clarke. To learn more about Mary Bayard Clark, you can check out Live Your Own Life: The Family Papers of Mary Bayard Clark, 1854–1886 by Terrell Armistead Crow and Mary Moulton Barden at the New Bern-Craven…
The New Bern Executive Club is hosting an inaugural dinner and the Recreation Center in New Bern. The program includes guest speaker Major General Field Harris from the United States Marine Corps and the speaker of the address Rear Admiral Ellis M.…
Based on the information given on the photograph, The Lovick Home was the location of the New Bern Public Library from 1912-1935. In 1935, the Lovick Home became the Christian Science Reading Room and Library. The image shows a car parked in front of…
A photograph of the view of the Neuse River from East Front Street. Seen in the middle of the image is the Neuse River Bridge from Johnson Street to Bridgeton. Wootten-Moulton photographed the image. On the back of the image, Myrtle and Mary Moulton…
Thomas Gates appoints an unnamed proxy on December 11, 1883, to act in his place for stockholder meetings for the Eastern Carolina Railroad Company. The document was never witnessed
A photograph of the Frazier-Mayhew House, built circa 1822. Originally built in the present-day 400 block of Middle Street (412), the house was moved to 217 Change Street in 1973.
This 1971 photograph shows the house as The Phone Booth, a club for…
A Gaston Hotel brochure advertising New Bern as the halfway point between New York and Florida. The second page lists historical fun facts about New Bern and the last page lists the activities for the hotel. The brochure lists J.V. Blades as the…
Pictured in the photograph is the original law office of William Gaston before it was moved and reconstructed in 1949. The photo shows the house caving in the middle, but still looks as it did when it was first constructed.