Crocket Miller Slave Quarters

06/20/2020

In times like these, preserving our history is more important than ever.

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08/18/2017

The completed fence at the slave quarters. Thanks to everyone who helped make this possible!

08/17/2017

“It’s absolutely critical that the story of Nearest Green gets added to the Jack Daniel story."

The whiskey maker backed away from a promise to acknowledge its debt to a black distiller — until Fawn Weaver swooped into town and took up the cause.

03/13/2017

When Ben A. Watford left his hometown of Winton, North Carolina many years ago, he swore he would never live there again. He kept true to that promise but

11/10/2016

In today's threatening political climate, we need to remember how bad things can get.
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Our collective past still echoes through our lives today, and influences what will happen tomorrow.

10/13/2016

Columnist Bill Hand describes his visit to the Crocket-Miller Slave Quarters in James City: Via New Burn Sun Journal

The next time you're taking down a burrito at the Neuse Boulevard Taco Bell, stop and reflect: You're chowing down on hallowed ground.

09/15/2016

On this date, in 1963, a terror plot occurred when the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in , AL was bombed, killing 4 young girls.

06/03/2016

The James City Historical Society was formed in 1980 by Ms. Thelma Bryant.

The fundamental mission of the James City Historical Society, Inc. was to preserve and perpetuate the unique history, struggle and quest for freedom of thousands of American black slaves who followed the Union Troops during the Civil War into New Bern, North Carolina and then eventually would settle across the Trent and the Neuse Rivers in a refugee settlement which was named James City to honor those freedmen and slaves the James City Historical Society constructed a museum park in James City.

The park is open to the public and tours of the museum park are conducted for free. The park is open every third Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 PM. Tours are also granted upon request.

1. A tour of the Crockett-Miller Slave Quarters Museum Park located in James City: The tour is free and takes about 45 minutes. It features the Crockett-Miller Slave Quarters, {One of the few remaining free standing slave quarters left in NC} the far cemetery, burial grounds of the former residents of the Trent River Settlement, circa 1860. A functioning out house complete with a Sears’s catalogue, circa 1940. A large monument on the Far Cemetery commemorating all of five hundred former slaves buried there. The site includes the artifacts from the archeological study by East Carolina University. It is really a walk back into time.

3. The tours on the history of the Trent River Settlement and the history of New Bern from 1860 to reconstruction are given upon request. This tour lecture takes about 35 to 40 minutes. A question and answer period follows the lecture.

If you would like to avail your self of a tour of the Crockett-Miller Slave Quarters Museum Park, email or call the number below for a personal tour of the site.

Ben Watford
[email protected]
252 638 8536

02/02/2016

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02/02/2016

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian Institution will open the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Sept. 24 in Washington. Smithsonian chief spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas said Monday that President Barack…

12/30/2015

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