This image shows the Cove Creek High School in Cove Creek, North Carolina, in the mid-1960s. It was one of five high schools in Watauga County that were merged by the Watauga County Board of Education to form Watauga High School, which opened in 1965. The others included Appalachian High School (1938-1965), Blowing Rock Union School, Cove Creek, and Watauga Consolidated School.