GRAFTON, a city of northern West Virginia, U.S.A., 85m. S. of Pittsburgh, on the Tygart river, at an altitude of i,000ft.; the county seat of Taylor county. It is on Federal highway So and is served by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The population was 8,517 in 1920 (95% native white) and was 7,737 in 193o by the Federal census. It is in a coal-mining and lumbering region, and has large railroad shops, flour mills, sawmills, glass and pottery works and other factories. There is a national cemetery here, with 1,322 graves. The West Virginia Reform school is 4m. west.
Grafton was settled about 1852, incorporated in 1856 and char tered as a city in