Tour Information
What you’ll See on the Tour... The "Trail of Flames" history/education tour is experienced aboard a comfortable, new air-conditioned tour bus (courtesy of New Bern Tours & Conventions). The guided tour begins, and concludes at the New Bern Firemen’s Museum , 408 Hancock Street. This tour chronicles the path of "New Bern's Great Fire of 1922". Visitors get to see, and learn about many of the more historically relevant places that were destroyed, displaced, or in some way impacted by the fire. (Note: There is plenty of parking, restrooms and handicap access at the Firemen’s Museum.)The bus route visits twenty historic places. Details of each property are given by the guide. The bus makes stops along the way, and there are opportunities to walk through some of the sites, if you prefer.
- Good Shepherd Hospital - 603 West Street
- The Charlotte S. Rhone Cultural Center - 608 West Street
- West Street School - 700 West St.
- First Missionary Baptist Church - 819 Cypress St.
- The Greenwood Cemetery - Corner Cypress & Bern Streets
- Ebenezer Presbyterian Church - 720 Bern St.
- Cedar Street Recreation - 800 Cedar St.
- Park - George St.
- Cedar Grove Cemetery - Queen and George Streets
- St. Peter’s African Methodist Episcopal Zion - 617 Queen St.
- Cyprian’s Church - 604 Johnson St.
- The Rhone Hotel - 512 Queen St.
