New Bern is a city in Craven County, North Carolina with a population of 23,128 as of the 2000 census.
The estimated population in 2006 was 27,650.
It is located at the convergence of the Trent and the Neuse rivers, 87 miles (140 km) northeast of Wilmington.
New Bern is the second oldest town in North Carolina and served as the capital of the North Carolina
colonial government and then briefly as the state capital. It is the county seat of Craven County and the
principal city of the New Bern Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Originally a Swiss settlement, the city is named after the capital of Switzerland, Bern.
The Swiss connection (just as the Dutch in New Amsterdam, and German immigrants in Pennsylvania Dutch)
with England was established by Marian exiles and marriages of the Royal House of Stuart,
important people in the history of the Calvinism.
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