Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Nodaway County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
An account from the chapter on Hughes township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Tradition says that the Elkhorn creek of this township derived its name from the fact of a very large elk having been killed at an early date near the stream, and his horns were placed by the huntsman in the branches of a tree and remained there several years, giving rise to the name of Elkhorn to that part of the country, and later, when naming streams, this creek took its name from these immense horns.
The chapter on Hughes Township in Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910 names Graham. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.
From an able, interesting, public address given at Graham, July 4, 1879, by Dr. J. W. Morgan, the following extracts are taken, as they contain valu¬ able early settlement facts concerning Hughes township and as such should be preserved in book form :
Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.
In 1843-4 Andrew Brown bought the Hogan land and built a small mill on the Elkhorn, just east of Brown's spring. This was a great relief, as it was nearby, though even then men and boys rode twelve to fifteen miles on a sack of corn laid across the horse, and returned home the same day, feeling that it was a small job going to mill. Andrew Brown afterward laid out the town of Graham, calling it Jacksonville. In 1858 or 1859 the Missouri Legislature changed the name to Graham, so that the town and postoffice would be the same. In 1845 ^ie Bridgewater mills were built by Moore & Cock, which was indeed a valuable acquisition.
Passage source: Past and Present of Nodaway County, Missouri, published 1910.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Hughes Township - 2,967 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Simpson's College: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Graham Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Maitland Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unk | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unk | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graham, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 7 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graham | $2,000 | Severe thunderstorms moved through the county with wind gusts up to 60 mph. Trees were knocked down south of Graham, partially blocking Route Y. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graham | - | Four power poles and farm equipment was tipped over. This was reported at HWY H south of HWY A near Graham. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graham | - | On a metal building system, the roof was pulled up from the walls. |
| September 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Graham | - | This is a continuation of the tornado that formed west of Maitland in Holt County. The tornado moved over the city of Graham, but only caused minor tree and power line damage. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graham | - | Power lines down along route A. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graham | - | Eight to ten inch tree limbs down. |
| June 2005 | Flash Flood | Graham | - | Up to 5 inches of water flowing over Route A. |
| May 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Graham | - | Brief tornado touchdown documented by storm chasers. |
| May 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Graham | - | Trained spotter reported brief tornado touchdown to the south of Graham. There were no injuries or damage reported. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graham | - | Several trees were reported downed. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Graham | - | Dime-size hail was reported by a storm spotter 3.5 miles south of Graham. |
| April 2023 | Hail | Graham | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Graham | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Graham | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Graham | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Graham | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Graham | - | no account filed |
| September 1993 | Hail | Graham | - | no account filed |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78001670 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Nodaway County | All 10 listed properties in this county. |
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