Excerpt from Hill Directory Co. 'S (Incorporated) New Bern, N. C., City Directory, 1926, Vol. 8: Embracing an Alphabetical Directory of Firms, Corporations, Private Citizens, City and County Governments, Churches, Public and Private Schools, Secret and Benevolent Institutions, Banks, and a Street and Avenue Guide New Bern is located at the j Linction of two beautiful, deep rivers - Neuse and Trent - near the entrance Of Pamlico Sound and 30 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. It IS in the center Of the great cotton, lumber and agri cultural belt Of the South Atlantic Seaboard. It is 87 miles northeast from Wilmington, 197 miles southeast of Raleigh, 171 miles South from Norfolk, and 377 miles south of Baltimore. New Bern is reached, by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, the Norfolk Southern Railroad and by water. There IS double daily service in all di rections; only one hour' 5 ride to the mighty Atlantic, 6 hours to Norfolk, 10 hours to Richmond, 15 hours to Baltimore, and 19 to New York, with through Pullman service between Washington and New Bern. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.