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Place	Description
New Belden	community in E central Pitt County.
New Berlin	See Delco.
New Bern	city and county seat, central Craven County at the junction of Neuse and Trent Rivers. Settled in 1710; inc. 1723. Took its name from Bern, Switzerland, capital of the homeland of its founder, Baron Christoph de Graffenried. Alt. 12. New Bern was the colonial and state capital from 1746 until the est. of Raleigh in 1792, although during the period the General Assembly met in various places from time to time. It met there in 1738-40, 1744-46, 1747-51, 1754-59, 1760, 1762, 1765-78, 1784-85, 1791-93, and 1794. Produces boats, lumber, apparel, dairy products, fertilizer, and processed meat. See also Tryon Palace; Drysborough.
New Bethel	community in NE Orange County. Developed around New Bethel Methodist Church, est. 1859.
New Bethel Crossroads	in W Rockingham County. Area renamed Bethany.
New Bethel Township	SW Rockingham County.
New Biggin Creek	See New Begun Creek.
New Branch	rises in N Avery County and flows NE into Buckeye Creek.
New Carthage	See Wilmington.
New Castle	community in SE Wilkes County between Osborne and Hunting Creeks. Named for the plantation of James Clemmons Hunt (1804-47), local merchant and planter. The town of Denneysville was authorized to be laid out at the site in 1817 on land then owned by George Denny, but it apparently did not develop. Known as Hunt's Store by 1847 and by its present name by the 1850s.