Record #:

43514

Author(s):

Ross, John E.

Abstract:

"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,

Source:

WNC Magazine (NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 16 Issue 3, Fall 2022, p90-99, il

Subject(s):

Spanish exploration--North Carolina (1500s); Pardo, Juan; De Soto, Hernando, 1496-1542; Joara (Native American village--North Carolina); Morganton--history