A Guided Perambulation of North Carolina's First Capital
Ninety minutes on foot, from a pharmacy counter to the river
In 1898 a New Bern pharmacist stopped calling his fountain drink “Brad's Drink” and started calling it Pepsi-Cola. We begin at his counter and walk out through three centuries of the town that produced him — the governor's palace that burned and came back, the fire that redrew the streets in a single day, and the two rivers that explain why any of it is here. Led by people who actually live here.
Most of what visitors learn about New Bern fits on a plaque. This is the version you'd get from a neighbor: the pharmacist who accidentally built a global brand and then went broke betting on sugar; the royal governor who spent a colony's patience on a house; the thousand buildings that burned in 1922 and the neighborhoods that never came back.
You'll walk about a mile and a quarter on flat sidewalks and stop nine times. We finish at Union Point where the Trent runs into the Neuse, with somewhere good to eat and a reason to go there.
No headsets, no scripts read off a card, no golf cart. Eight guests at most, so it stays a conversation rather than a broadcast.
Booking opens the moment our listing goes live. Until then, get in touch and we'll hold you a place on one of the first walks.
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