On Callahan Avenue (Virginia Route 78) east of West Main Street (Business U.S. 23), on the right when traveling east.
The town sprang up after the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Southern Railroad made a junction here in 1890. Named for the Appalachian Mountains, in the heart of which it stands, it was incorporated in 1906; the streets were laid out in . . . — — Map (db m90888) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 23) 0.2 miles west of Inman Street (Route 68), on the right when traveling south.
Caboose 562807 was constructed by the Wabash
Railroad in its shops at Decatur, Illinois in 1948.
When the Wabash was merged into the Norfolk &
Western Railroad in 1964 the caboose was
renumbered into the N&W’s equipment roster. During
its time . . . — — Map (db m273525) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 23) at South Inman Street, on the right when traveling north on West Main Street.
Appalachia Public Schools began on this site on April 29, 1905, when the cornerstone of a grammar school was laid. A high school annex was added in 1911, and a separate high school building was erected in 1921. After the grammar school was . . . — — Map (db m304901) HM
Near West Main Street (Business U.S. 23) 0.2 miles west of Inman Street (Route 68), on the right when traveling south.
Definition of a “TROLL.” A mythical cave dwelling creature depicted in folklore as dwarfish and typically having a
very ugly appearance.
In the late days of 1800’s when coal was king, the mining companies and the . . . — — Map (db m273527) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 23) 0.2 miles west of Inman Street when traveling south.
It seems like years ago when my friend Johnny Cubine approached me about
working with him on a “carving project” for the Town of Appalachia. Without
listening to very much more of what John had to say, I thought and said “sound
like a good idea . . . — — Map (db m273551) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 23) 0.2 miles west of Inman Street ( Route 68), on the left when traveling south.
The Kelly View School is a small, one-room frame schoolhouse which stands as an important vestige of the early educational
and social history of the Southern Appalachian coalfields, rural Wise County, and the Kelly View area. Kelly View was . . . — — Map (db m273492) HM
The Lynching of Dave Hurst
On November 14, 1920, a large white mob lynched a 25-year-old Black coal miner named Dave Hurst. Authorities had arrested Mr. Hurst two days earlier after a white woman reported that she had been assaulted by a . . . — — Map (db m273690) HM
Near West Main Street (Business U.S. 24) 0.2 miles west of Inman Street, on the right when traveling south.
The Cumberland Valley Division of the Louisville &
Nashville began construction at Corbin, Ky in 1886
and reached what would become Norton, Virginia, in
1891, completing a vital rail link between St. Louis
and Tidewater Virginia. This bridge . . . — — Map (db m273707) HM
