Editing Graham, Missouri (section)

==History==
Graham<ref name="1861map">{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4160.cw0296300/?r=0.055,0.08,0.142,0.068,0|publisher=New York, Louisville, [and] London, J. T. Lloyd, 1861|last=Lloyd|first=James T.|title=Lloyd's official map of Missouri|website=Library of Congress|access-date=May 14, 2025}}</ref><!--this is likely the first map with Graham called Graham--> was originally called Jacksonville, and under the latter name was [[plat]]ted in 1856.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nodaway County Place Names, 1928–1945 |url=https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/nodaway-county |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070319/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_nodaway.html |archivedate=June 24, 2016 |accessdate=November 24, 2016 |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri}}</ref> The present name is after [[Amos Graham|Col. Amos Graham]], a local clerk.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1917 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n107 336]}}</ref> In 1860, under the first postmaster, the post office briefly went by the name of Brownsville until the mid-1860s.<ref name="arch">{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/68487045?objectPage=571|title=Records of the Post Office Department, Missouri: Henry - Howell|website=National Archves Catalog|access-date=May 16, 2025}}</ref><ref name="1860map">{{cite web|url=https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/282723|publisher=S. Augustus Mitchell 1860|last=Gamble|first=William H.|title=County map of the states of Iowa and Missouri, 1860|website=Iowa Digital Library|access-date=May 14, 2025}}</ref><ref name="KCh">{{cite web |url=https://kchistory.org/image/clarks-new-sectional-map-missouri | title=Clark's New Sectional Map of Missouri| publisher=J. C. Clarke & Company | accessdate=May 4, 2025}}</ref><ref>https://digitalarchive.thelibrary.org/digital/collection/moser/id/1281</ref> A post office called Graham has been in operation since 1852, however was out of service from 2014 to 2020 due to the building being an extremely hazardous location.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Nodaway | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=24 November 2016}}</ref>

[[Simpson's College]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1978.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>