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.
