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Near Morganton, North Carolina, the Berry Site Field School educates student archeologists and the public about archeology and history. The site was home to a Native American village called Joara, which was established in the fifteenth century. When the Spaniards explored North America, they journeyed here to build Fort San Juan, the first inland European settlement on the continent. Today, students are uncovering a variety of artifacts and slowly piecing together the story of this cultural interaction.
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"On May 21, 1540, Hernando de Soto, with most of his 620 conquistadors and the female chief of a Native American tribe he had taken hostage, arrived at Joara, a village at the base of teh Blue Ridge about 12 miles northwest of today's Morganton. De Soto's band would be the first Europeans to cross the mountains." In 1586,a generation later, Juan Pardo Pardo is credited with founding a Fort at Joara, the first European settlement in the interior of North Carolina,
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