Original: David Moore , Robin Beck , and Christopher Rodning , '' In Search of Fort San Juan : Sixteenth Century Spanish and Native Interaction in the North Carolina Piedmont '' , Warren Wilson College Archaeology Home Page , 2004 , accessed 26 Jun 2008 However the following year the Indians killed the Spanish and burned the fort .
Simplified: And in 1861 parts of Burke County , Caldwell County , McDowell County , Watauga County , and Yancey County were made into Mitchell County .