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History · Graingers

Graingers’ post office opened in 1893, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1983 on.

1893first post office
0on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
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How Graingers began

When was Graingers founded?

1893

The Graingers post office opened in 1893, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 229133 years
Founding year: the first Graingers post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Graingers’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Graingers are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Graingers’ homes were built before 1952.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Graingers’s history is told.

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The story so far

Graingers, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Graingers yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Graingers is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lenoir County, North Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 229. The community is in northeastern Lenoir County, along North Carolina Highway 11. It is 6 miles (10 km) northeast of Kinston, the county seat, and the same distance southwest of Grifton. North Carolina Highway 148, the C.F. Harvey Parkway, has its eastern terminus at NC-11 in the northeastern end of Graingers. The parkway serves as a northern and western bypass of Kinston, reaching U.S. Route 70 in 13 miles (21 km).

Its first post office opened in 1893.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Graingers, 1893 to 1983

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1893Post officeThe Graingers post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1915Post officeThe Graingers post office closes
  5. 1983On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Graingers on the map, 1983 to 1998

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Graingers. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Graingers on the 1983 USGS mapGraingers on the 1998 USGS map1983Kinston sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Graingers.

Famous people

Famous people close to Graingers

Nobody well known was born in Graingers itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Jaime PresslyAmerican actress, model, and producer · b. 1977
Brandon IngramAmerican basketball player · b. 1997
VisceraAmerican professional wrestler · b. 1971
Jerry StackhouseAmerican basketball player · b. 1974
Maceo ParkerAmerican saxophonist and composer · b. 1943
Anne JeffreysAmerican actress and singer · b. 1923
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Graingers had its own post office from 1893 to 1915.

Graingers
1893–1915
18901960today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Graingers’ history

What year was Graingers founded?

The Graingers post office opened in 1893, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.