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8 yearbooks from John Graham High School in Warrenton, NC are now online, thanks to partner Warren County Memorial Library. The yearbooks span the years 1947 to 1969 and provide a glimpse into the lives of high-schoolers in the northern portion of North Carolina. The school integrated in 1966 and the yearbooks from 1967, 1968, and 1969 show the newly integrated population of the school.
John Graham High School was originally the Warrenton Male Academy, one of the first schools in the state, which opened in 1786. In 1897, the school changed it’s name to Warrenton High School and in the early 1900s became coeducational. The school later became public and was known as John Graham High School, after the man who took over the school in 1897. John Graham High School during the 1900s was the white school in Warrenton, while John R. Hawkins High School was the school for Black children. During integration, the students of Hawkins High School were moved to John Graham High School. John Graham’s last graduating class was in 1981. After that, the school transitioned to a middle school and the high-schoolers moved to the new Warren County High School building. Several well known graduates have come from John Graham High School, including Frank Porter Graham, who became a US Senator and president of UNC and R.B. House, the first chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill.
To view more materials from Warren County Memorial Library, visit their partner page here and to learn more about the library itself, visit their website here. To see more high school yearbooks, visit our North Carolina Yearbooks collection.
The Warren Record, January 04, 1929, page 5
The Warren Record, April 05, 1929, page 7
The Warren Record, April 12, 1929, page 7
DigitalNC is excited to welcome our new partner, the Warren County Memorial Library, located in Warrenton, NC!
As their first contribution to DigitalNC, we are happy to publish several decades of The Warren Record newspaper. The issues date from 1929-1938 and from 1959-1970 are available for research and exploration.
The Warren Record was a weekly community newspaper that offered stories from both local and national headlines. During the earlier decades, it also included a page that was dedicated to the interests of women. The paper often reprinted popular fashion articles and images that were fresh from the New York runways. Like the images presented above, they present a unique look into the styles that women were exposed to during the early twentieth century, even in rural areas of North Carolina.
Browse all the issues of the Warren Record that are available on DigitalNC here. To learn more about this new partner, the Warren County Memorial Library, please visit their contributor page or their website.
Thanks to our partners at the Warren County Memorial Library, we’ve added 13 new John Graham High School yearbooks to DigitalNC, bringing our total from this school to 22. We now hold each yearbook from 1947 until 1969, enabling digital access to resources on student life in Warrenton, North Carolina. The school integrated in 1966, so these recent earlier additions show the school when it’s population was all white students.
Our holdings of John Graham High School yearbooks were created by the school after it had become a coeducational, public high school. The original school, named Warrenton Male Academy, was founded in 1786 and was one of the first high schools in the state. John Graham High School of the 1900s was the white high school in town until integration with John R. Hawkins High School in the mid-1960s. The class of 1981 was the last graduating class of John Graham High School, which then became a middle school. Local teenagers moved to the new Warren County High School building. The building is now the John Graham Center for Warren County Family Services.
To learn more about Warren County Memorial Library, visit their partner page here or visit their website here. To see these and other high school yearbooks, visit our North Carolina Yearbooks collection.
A 1986 article about a rise in black bear sightings in Warren County
Nearly twenty years and over 600 issues of the Warren Record have been newly digitized on DigitalNC. While our collection previously only included issues from the years 1929-1938 and from 1959-1970, this new addition includes over a dozen years stretching from 1970 to 1989, which helps our collection become that much closer to being complete. Published since 1896, the Warren Record is a weekly newspaper that serves the readers in Warrenton and Warren County, NC. Many of the articles include local news concerning citizens or Warren County. For example, the 1986 article above was about the alarming increase in black bear sightings in Warren County and advice for readers about what to do in case they see one.
A 1970 article about the changing census in Warrenton from 1960 to 1970.
Many articles written in this time period were about other municipal issues, like elections, political developments, and census data. In the August 1970 article on the left, the Record announced that Warrenton’s population had dropped 7%, from 1124 residents in 1960 to 1046 ten years later. Warren County’s population also heavily dropped that decade, with its 22% drop being the largest on a percentage basis of any county in the state.
A 1989 article about the advent of cable television coming to Warrenton and Norlina.
Other articles were simply about local developments that could interest residents of Warren County. In the May 1989 article on the right, the Record announced that Warrenton and Norlina would be receiving cable television within the next year. People living in nearby Henderson already had cable, and the same company would be rolling out 12 channels to customers at a cost of $8 per month, with an extra dollar for every additional television.
To browse through other materials from the Warren County Memorial Library, visit their partner page or visit their website here.
The following microfilmed newspapers have been selected for digitization in 2015. Almost 90 reels were chosen from over 600 nominated reels, according to our Criteria for Selecting Newspapers to Digitize from Microfilm.
| Title |
Years |
Nominating Institution |
| The Brunswick Beacon (Shallotte, N.C.) |
1985-1992 |
Rourk Branch Library |
| Jackson County Journal (Sylva, N.C.) |
1921-1943 |
Jackson County Public Library |
| The Journal-Patriot (North Wilkesboro, N.C.) |
1933-1947 |
Wilkes County Public Library |
| The Kings Mountain Herald (Kings Mountain, N.C.) |
1937-1954 |
Mauney Memorial Library |
| Polk County News (Tryon, N.C.) |
1923-1926 |
Polk County Public Library |
| The Sylva Herald and Ruralite (Sylva, N.C.) |
1943-1950 |
Jackson County Public Library |
| Trench and Camp (Charlotte, N.C.) |
1917-1918 |
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library |
| The Warren Record (Warrenton, N.C.) |
1929-1970 |
Warren County Memorial Library |
| Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.) |
1923-1950 |
Watauga County Public Library |
| Winston-Salem Chronicle (Winston-Salem, N.C.) |
1974-1996 |
Forsyth County Public Library |
