Cedar Grove Cemetery

Dec 2022

Cedar Grove was established in 1800. The main entrance is a stunning triple-arched structure that stands in front of a 12.5 acre property. The cemetery was added to the the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.I was here to visit the final resting place of Pepsi inventor Caleb Bradham but there are others interred here including William Joseph Williams who painted the "Masonic Portrait" of George Washington.Bradham's stone is quite far back and unremarkable. There were a couple of Pepsi bottles on it that make it easier to find. The center fountain is impressive. Many of the headstones are in good condition but many are illegible and the carvings are lost to time.[Review 18902 overall - 3386 in North Carolina - 2425 of 2022.]

Nov 2019

This cemetery was recommended to us by the host at our bed & breakfast, but I had also learned about it from my research on Yelp. This cemetery, among other people, contains the burial site of the man who invented Pepsi-Cola. That's reason enough to visit, but take time to review the map and accompanying chart at the entrance on the Weeping Arch side of the cemetery and get an idea of who else is buried here. Some of the locations were hard to find because the portable maps were all out, but if you reference an app on your phone (Find-A-Grave) you can get pretty good coordinates for any of the locations that you're looking for. Overall, a worthwhile trip to pay respects to various people who have made their impact in the New Bern area.

Oct 2018

This cemetery is really cool, especially considering the inventor of Pepsi is burried there, his grave is really small and easy to not notice if you aren't specifically looking for it. But it's really a sad shame to see how many graves are over grown or even broken tomb stones and loose bricks everywhere, I took a picture looking through the hole in the door of a tomb and you can see the whole thing has fallen apart on the inside. So as cool as this cemetery is, I'd like to see someone clean it up and take care of it much more