Appalachian Street
Originally the primary turnpike entrance to Boone from the south, when it was known as the Boone and Blowing Rock Turnpike in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Appalachian Street gradually lost its significance as a transportation route during the twentieth century. Known briefly as Gragg Street in the late 1920s, Locust Street in the 1930s, and Appalachian Street by the early 1940s, this street was repeatedly realigned and eventually fractured by the development of Appalachian State Teachers College (later University). By the end of the twentieth century, campus development had all but obliterated the original road route, save for a short section of University Drive and the one-block section between West King Street and Howard Street known today as Appalachian Street.
12/7/2021