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McGraw is a village in Cortland County, New York, United States. The population was 972 as of the 2020 census. The population was 972 as of the 2020 census. The village is named after Samuel McGraw and is in the eastern part of the town of Cortlandville , east of the city of Cortland .
English: The New York Central College, in McGraw, NY (at that time called McGrawville) was the first college in the country that accepted all students, black and white, male and female, from the very first. It is also the first college in the United States with black faculty.
New York Central College at its opening in 1849. The College was founded in McGrawville, "a quiet and healthy place" according to the college's advertisement in the abolitionist National Era, [15] because of a pledge by the village of $12,000 (equivalent to $392,400 in 2023) towards construction costs; Perry, New York, had offered $10,000. [16]
English: Main building of the college, the year it opened. Date: 16 August 1849: ... McGrawville (today McGraw, NY) Items portrayed in this file depicts. New-York ...
These buildings portray McGraw's early 20th century affluence and the influence of mass-produced building materials on the design of small town commercial buildings after 1890. Two of the 1830’s churches located in the Main Street Historic District were modified to a great extent in 1919 and 1920 to show the unprecedentedly late continuation ...
Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental scientific concept.
The hamlet was named for one Mr. McGraw, a local landowner. [2] According to a local historian, the settlement grew as a village around a saw mill, and at one time included "a store, cheese factory, blacksmith shop, and ten or twelve dwellings" including tenement houses for workers on a stockraising farm, and a boarding house.
Presbyterian Church of McGraw is a historic Presbyterian church located at McGraw in Cortland County, New York.It was built in 1901 to designs by architects Pierce & Bickford and is a one-story structure, irregular in plan and massing, built of "Canandaigua gold brick".