This week on our audio podcast we tell the story of Baron Francois Pierre de TuBoeuf, a Frenchman who tried to establish a French settlement in Appalachia in the 1790s.
We also went to the site of the settlement in St. Paul, Virginia, to show you where the colony was, including the Baron’s house, and you can see that video down below:
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