Tryon's+Palace


 * __Tryon's Palace__** ﻿   ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ Tryon's Palace is the government's residence in North Carolina. It was completed in 1770 in the newly designated capital of New Bern. Because of its beauty no one had ever seen a house like it and it rivaled any building in the British Empire. Governer Tryon said that it was to be "an honor to British America." Tryon's Palace was built by an architect named John Hawk who Tryon brought to the colony. Hawk employed North Carolinians and also craftsmen from other colonies to do fined interior woodwork. Some of the finel carved features came from England. Tyron's Palace had three floors. The servants worked in the basement, official business was conducted on the first floor(ex: meetings and official ceremonies) and the governor's office was there, the governor and his family lived on the second floor. Two small buildings flanked the main building: a kitchen on was one building and the other was a stable. Tryon moved in the house in 1770 but only stayed there for a couple of years. He moved to Manhattan due to becoming the governor of New York after the Battle of Alamance. After the War for Independence Richard Caswell, the first governor of the state of North Carolina, live and woked in the Palace. When state government ws moved inland to cope with the war in 1779, the palace lost its official status. When President George Washington visited New Bern in 1791, he described the building as "hastening to ruins" because no one was keeping it up. The building burned down to its foundations after hay stored in it caught fire in 1798. Only one service building remained and was used as an apartment. After World War 2, North Carolina citizens raised enough money to pay for reconstruction. The Palace opened in 1959 and has been one of the leading tourist destinations in the state since then.  **__ The Battle of Alamance __** **__ ﻿ __**  Governor Tryon assumed that the Regulators would rise again because of high taxes, so he gathered militia from across the Coastal Plain. They marched on Hillsborough "against the insurgents(Regulators)". Edmund Fanning joined them with a few Orange County soldiers. The Regulators gathered southwest of Hillsborough . On May 16, 1771, Tryon ordered them to disperse, but the Regulators refused to. Because of this Governor Tryon ordered the militia to shoot at them. The Battle of Alamance lasted a couple of hours. The Regulators ran out of ammuntion and fled through the woods because they had noow commander or organization to take orders from. Tryon made sure that every backcountry resident knew never to challenge the authority of the Crown. To show this, he executed one Regulator even before the battle, ordering him shot right in front of the other protestors. The day after the battle, he hanged another without a trial. Tryon then marched to his small force toward Salisburg. His troops demanded loyalty oaths from everyone they met along the way. To show they meant business, Tryon's troops dismantled Herman Husband's farm down to the lowest fence railing. Eventually, more than six thousand backcountry men came into Salisbury and Bethabara to gain a pardon. After returning to Hillsborough, twelve more Regulators were tried and condemned. Tryon pardoned six of them an hanged the rest.     media type="custom" key="7429955" [[image:http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/uploads/2008/12/tryon_palace.jpg width="587" height="236"]]   ﻿ ﻿Tryon's Palace    [] ﻿     [[image:http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/mckimages/alambat.jpg width="549" height="328"]]   The Battle of Alamance    []