<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.newbern-nc.org </Td> </Tr> <P> New Bern is a city in Craven County, North Carolina, United States . As of the 2010 census it had a population of 29,524, which had risen to an estimated 30,242 as of 2013 . It is the county seat of Craven County and the principal city of the New Bern Metropolitan Statistical Area . </P> <P> It is located at the confluence of the Neuse and the Trent rivers, near the North Carolina coast . It lies 112 miles (180 km) east of Raleigh, 87 miles (140 km) northeast of Wilmington, and 162 miles (261 km) south of Norfolk . New Bern is the birthplace of Pepsi . </P> <P> New Bern was settled in 1710 by Bernese and Palatine immigrants under the auspices of Christoph von Graffenried, 1st Baron of Bernberg . The new colonists named their settlement after Bern, Switzerland, home state of their patron . The English connection with Switzerland had been established by some Marian exiles who sought refuge in Protestant parts of Switzerland . There were also marriages between the Royal House of Stuart and notable people in the history of Calvinism . The colonists later discovered they had started their settlement on the site of a former Tuscarora village named Chattoka . This caused conflicts with the Tuscaroras who were in the area . </P>

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