the county-seat of Taylor co., 82 mi. e. by n. of Parkersburg, on Tygarts Valley River. The city is the terminus of four divisions of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad and contains railroad shops, flour and planing mills, cigar factories and a number of wholesale houses. A national cemetery is located here, and the state reform school is at Pruntytown, 4 miles west of the town. Grafton was established as a railroad town in 1854 and was chartered as a city in 1899. Population in 1910, 7563.