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MumFest
New Bern, NC · Festival
- When
- October 10–11, 2026
- Where
- Downtown New Bern Waterfront · New Bern · NC
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
New Bern's flagship fall festival decorates the downtown waterfront with thousands of chrysanthemums for a weekend of live music, food trucks, and a beer garden along the Neuse and Trent rivers. Now in its 46th year, it has historically drawn more than 75,000 visitors.
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New Bern's flagship fall festival decorates the downtown waterfront with thousands of chrysanthemums for a weekend of live music, food trucks, and a beer garden along the Neuse and Trent rivers.
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The royal governor built himself the finest public building in the colonies at New Bern in 1770 and taxed backcountry farmers to pay for it, which helped start the Regulator uprising.
Caleb Bradham mixed a digestive tonic at his New Bern pharmacy soda fountain in 1893, called it Brad's Drink, and renamed it Pepsi-Cola five years later after the dyspepsia it claimed to settle.
North Carolina's first town, chartered in 1705, was also briefly home to its most famous resident when Blackbeard took the king's pardon in 1718 and settled here among officials who found him useful.
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