Graham, North Carolina
| Graham, North Carolina | |
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| City | |
 Location of Graham, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates: 36°3′52″N 79°23′53″W / 36.06444°N 79.39806°WCoordinates: 36°3′52″N 79°23′53″W / 36.06444°N 79.39806°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | North Carolina |
| County | Alamance |
| Area | |
| • Total | 9.7 sq mi (25.1 km2) |
| • Land | 9.6 sq mi (24.9 km2) |
| • Water | 0.08 sq mi (0.2 km2) |
| Elevation | 653 ft (199 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 14,133 |
| • Density | 1,472/sq mi (568.2/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 27253 |
| Area code(s) | 336 |
| FIPS code | 37-27280 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1024758 |
| Website | www |
Graham is a city in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census the population was 14,153. It is the county seat of Alamance County.
Graham was laid out in 1849 as the county seat of the newly formed Alamance County, and was incorporated as a town in 1851; it became a city in 1961. It was named for William Alexander Graham, U.S. senator from North Carolina (1840–1843) and governor of North Carolina (1845–1849).
The lynching of Wyatt Outlaw, the first African-American Town Commissioner and Constable of Graham, on February 26, 1870, by the Ku Klux Klan , along with the assassination of State Senator John W. Stephens at the Caswell County Courthouse, provoked Governor William Woods Holden to declare martial law in Alamance and Caswell Counties, resulting in the Kirk-Holden War of 1870.
The Alamance County Courthouse, Cedarock Park Historic District, Graham Historic District, William P. Morrow House, North Main Street Historic District, and Oneida Cotton Mills and Scott-Mebane Manufacturing Company Complex are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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