Hand-colored, engraved map made of two joined sheets: A Compleat Map of North Carolina from an actual Survey. By Captn Collet, Governor of Fort Johnston. Engraved by I. Bayly. [across top of map, above neat line] | To His Most Excellent Majesty…
"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 Lady Blessington Cannon is photographed with its new marker placed by the Richard Dobbs Spaight Chapter, NSDAR, on . Legend states that the cannon was taken from the ship "Lady Blessington" during the American Revolution.
"President George Washington rested under this beautiful, moss-draped oak tree near Wilmington, N.C. A tablet to mark his visit has been erected there by the Daughters of the American Revolution." - Gertrude Carraway, New Bern, N.C.
Photographed here is Tom Haywood proudly presenting his self-kicking machine at the Croatan Forest, ten miles east of New Bern. Tom Haywood's "Purpose of Origination and Organization" pamphlet states: "I am one of those Americans who has said,…
Photograph of the Earl S. Sloan Estate in Trent Woods, behind trees and bushes. Earl S. Sloan, a famous Bostonian millionaire of the early twentieth century and creator of Sloan's Liniment, built the home in Trent Woods in 1914 as a winter home.
Lieutenant Colonel Wilson H. Stephenson in uniform standing in front of large artillery at the National Guard Armory. Lt. Col. Stephenson was the commanding officer of Camp Battle in New Bern when it was established in 1942.