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Museum of the Albemarle: Western NC's Mountain Gateway Museum damaged by Helene
Nestled in the mountains of McDowell County, North Carolina, is a town called Old Fort. Before the arrival of European settlers, the area was once populated by the Catawba and Cherokee, but it wasn’t until the mid-1700s that English and Scottish colonists would arrive. Known as “the westernmost outpost of Colonial civilization,” a fort was constructed on land owned by brothers George and Samuel Davidson called Davidson’s Fort and would become a site for trading between settlers and Native Americans. ...
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