graffenreidt

Updated: June 29, 2025

In 1709, the Lords Proprietors granted to Baron de Graffenreidt ten thousand acres of land on the Neuse and Cape Fear rivers for colonizing purposes. The town was called New Berne, after Berne, in Switzerland, the birth-place of Graffenreidt.

C. L. Hunter - Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical