Attractions Tips
Don't
feel embarrassed to wander residential streets or stop and gaze at any of
the houses in the historic district. Everyone appreciates your admiration.
On
the corner of Pollock and Middle streets is a cannon buried muzzle down. The
cannon was taken from the Revolutionary British ship-of-war Lady
Blessington following an engagement with a privateer owned by New Bern
patriot John Wright Stanly.
Plans
are underway to preserve the area where the Battle of New Bern took
place in March 1862 during the Civil War. (The Union forces triumphed
and occupied New Bern for the rest of the war). The New Bern Historical
Society now owns 26 acres of the original battlefield, located near
Taberna, and plans to preserve this acreage in its natural state. Future
plans call for the addition of nature trails and interpretive markers.