Boalsburg is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Harris Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.

However, that claim was brought into question by Bellware and Gardiner in their book, The Genesis of the Memorial Day Holiday in America, in 2014.

[4] The name "Boalsburg" comes from the Boal family who settled the region after emigrating from County Londonderry, Ireland.

[5][6] The fourth generation of the Boal family, Col. Theodore Davis Boal, married Mathilde de Lagarde whose mother's sister Victoria married Diego Santiago Colón, a descendant of Christopher Columbus.

[7] Mathilde inherited a portion of her aunt Victoria's estate in 1908 and brought the Columbus Chapel to the Boal Mansion from Spain in 1919[8] This inheritance included an admiral's desk that family tradition says belonged to Columbus himself.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.8 square miles (15.0 km2), all land.

322 begins as the Mount Nittany Expressway in the CDP and travels northwest from Boalsburg, bypassing State College to the east and north, while Business 322 begins as Boal Avenue and proceeds into the center of State College, 4 miles (6 km) northwest of Boalsburg, as Atherton Street.