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UTC−4 (EDT) Congressional district. 11th. Website. www.grahamcounty.org. Graham County (locally / ˈɡreɪˌhæm /) [ 1 ] is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,030, [ 2 ] making it the third-least populous county in North Carolina. Its county seat is Robbinsville.
Graham County (1872) Named for William A. Graham, Governor of North Carolina and a U.S. Senator, Graham County was formed in 1872 out of the eastern section of Cherokee County. Graham County’s establishment is largely attributed to President Andrew Jackson’s nationwide removal of Indians beginning in 1838.
Graham County, a part of the Cherokee treaty lands, was not opened to settlement until President Jackson ordered the removal of the Indians in 1838. In 1838 there was not a road in Graham County except the old Indian trading paths. There is no record of travel by white man across the mountains of Western North Carolina prior to the famous ...
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The name “Canada” likely comes from the Huron-Iroquois word “kanata,” meaning “village” or “settlement.” In 1535, two Aboriginal youths told French explorer Jacques Cartier about the route to kanata; they were actually referring to the village of Stadacona, the site of the present-day City of Québec. For lack of another name, Cartier used the word ...
King Henry VII of England referred to the land discovered by John Cabot in 1497 as the “New Found Launde.” It’s likely that name Labrador came from Joas Fernandez, the Azorean known as “El llavorador”, an explorer on the Corte-Real’s expedition in 1500. The area of Labrador includes all the northern islands in the region. The province officially be...
Nova Scotia is Latin for “New Scotland”. The province was named by Sir William Alexander who was given the land by King James VI of Scotland in 1621. Prior to its official naming, the First Nations knew it as “Mi’kma’ki”, the French called it “Acadia”, and the British were already familiar with calling the land “New Scotland”. (Source: Government o...
This province was originally included in the area that made up Nova Scotia. It was later separated and established as a province in 1784. The name “New Brunswick” was given to the area in honour of King George III who also held the title of Duke of Brunswick, an area in Germany. (Source: Government of Canada) Find out more: 1. Geographical names se...
The province’s earliest documented name was “Abeqweit” which was given to the area by the Mi’kmaq and meant “cradled in the waves”. It later became Ile Saint-Jean which was used by the original French settlers, the Acadians. After the Treaty of Paris ceded the island to the British in 1763, it was renamed St. John’s Island. In 1799 the English decl...
The name “Quebec” comes from the Algonquin word for “narrow passage” or “strait”. It was first used to describe the narrowing of the St. Lawrence River near what is now the City of Québec. Quebec has had several names throughout its history: Canada, New France, Lower Canada and Canada East. (Source: Government of Canada) Find out more: 1. Geographi...
Ontario acquired its name from the Iroquois word “kanadario”, which translates into “sparkling” water. The earliest recording of the name Ontario was in 1641 where it was used to describe a mass of land on the north shore of the easternmost part of the Great Lakes. The British settlers had originally called the land that covered Quebec, Ontario, an...
The name is believed to have originated with Cree term "Man-into-wahpaow", meaning “the narrows of the Great Spirit”, which describes Lake Manitoba and how it narrows significantly at the centre. The province entered confederation in 1870 following the Manitoba Act. Sir John A. Macdonald announced that the province’s name, suggested by Métis leader...
The name of the province comes from the Cree name for the Saskatchewan River, “Kisiskatchewanisipi” or “swift-flowing river.” The modern spelling was adopted in 1882 when the area became a district of the North West Territories (it would later become a province in 1905). (Source: Government of Canada) Find out more: 1. Geographical names search res...
This province was named after Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter, Princess Louise Caroline Alberta. Alberta was originally established as a provisional district of the North West Territories in 1882. The name was maintained when Alberta officially became a province in 1905. (Source: Government of Canada) Find out more: 1. Geographical names search re...
History. Graham County, formed in 1881 by the 11th Territorial Legislature, was created from parts of Apache and Pima counties. The legislature broke with tradition of naming Arizona counties after local Native American tribes when the new county called Graham was named after the 10,724 foot Mount Graham, the highest peak in the area.
The county seat of Graham County, Robbinsville, is nearer to the capitals of six other states than it is to Raleigh. Robbinsville is at an altitude of 2,150 feet, and includes the site of one of W. H. Thomas' Indian trading posts on Rhea Hill. Even in the 1930s, Graham County's wooden court house (last in the state) was ringed by stores with ...
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Media: Graham cracker. A graham cracker (pronounced / ˈɡreɪ.əm / or / ˈɡræm / in America) is a sweet flavored cracker made with graham flour [ 1 ] that originated in the United States in the mid-19th century, with commercial development from about 1880. It is eaten as a snack food, usually honey- or cinnamon-flavored, and is used as an ...
