Tryon Palace Historic Sites and Gardens

New Bern

View of the estate

QUICK FACTS

LINKS

SITE: Tryon Palace Historic Sites & Gardens
SITE: North Carolina Historic Sites
SITE: VisitNC.com

LOCATION

This Georgian mansion was completed in 1770 as a residence for British Royal Governor William Tryon; it was also the meeting place for the colonial Assembly and the first capitol of North Carolina.

Includes the North Carolina History Center, opened Fall 2010.

Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense (1775), urging the colonies to declare their independence, found 150,000 purchasers in a population of less than 3 million — the equivalent today of a sale of 14 million.

— Richard Brookhiser

Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (2003)