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McGraw is a village in the eastern part of the town of Cortlandville in Cortland County, New York, about four miles east of the city of Cortland.

McGraw is named after Samuel McGraw, who settled there in 1805 with his family from Vermont, and the settlement was long known as McGrawville before incorporating as McGraw in 1869.

McGraw grew up around water power on Trout Brook, which drove an early grist mill built in 1812 and a sawmill, and the hamlet gained its first store in 1818.

McGraw styled itself "Corset City" in the 19th century: the McGraw Corset Company employed more than 400 men and women, and the Empire Corset Company's "Never Rust" corsets were sold internationally, with one hundred thousand dozen corsets manufactured in the village in 1910.

McGraw was home to New-York Central College, founded by Free Baptists in 1849 as the first college in the United States founded to accept all students, including women and African Americans.

About half of New-York Central College's students were African American and it employed three Black professors — the first time in the United States that Black professors taught white students — before a smallpox epidemic, opposition, and financial troubles closed the college in 1859 or 1860.

Astronomer Asaph Hall, who discovered the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, graduated from New-York Central College in McGraw, where his wife Angeline Stickney Hall taught.

McGraw was the birthplace of Daniel Scott Lamont, who served as United States Secretary of War under President Grover Cleveland.

McGraw's Main Street Historic District and its Presbyterian Church are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

McGraw had a population of 972 at the 2020 census, down from a peak of 1,319 in 1970, and the 2000 census counted 1,000 residents in 382 households.