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Craven County is located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 100,720. [1] Its county seat is New Bern. [2] The county was created in 1705 as Archdale Precinct from the now-extinct Bath County. It was renamed Craven Precinct in 1712 and gained county status in 1739.
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300 Years of History. Craven County and its capital of New Bern were founded in the early 1700s by Swiss immigrants, who named their settlement after Bern, the capital of Switzerland. New Bern was the original capital of North Carolina, and in 1774, it became the location of the first Provincial Congress in the colonies, a move that was in ...
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Written By Jonathan Martin. Various towns and tributaries are located throughout Craven County. The Catfish Lake, Palmetto Swamp, and the Neuse River are a few important bodies of water in the region. New Bern, the county’s seat of government, was founded in the early eighteenth century several years after Craven’s establishment.
by William S. Powell, 2006. Craven County, located in the Coastal Plain region of eastern North Carolina, lies within one of early North Carolina's most important regions. Formed in 1705, it was originally called Archdale Precinct of Bath County; in 1712 the name was changed to Craven County in honor of the earl of Craven, one of the Lords ...
1700s. Craven County, originally included as a precinct of Bath County, was established in its present form in 1712. New Bern became its county seat in 1722, and was also the capital of the colony and first state capital until 1794.
