OCHS Research Assistant Ruth Mallory Long (left) and former historical society three-term board member Frieda Willey show off two Clore...

The Orange County Historical Society is pleased to announce the publication of Ann L. Miller’s The Register of Free Blacks for Orange...

WRITTEN BY RAY EZELL Figure 1. The Green family in 1960, pictured from left to right: Duff, Angus, James W. Sr., Andrew and James W. Jr....

WRITTEN BY RAY EZELL After its founding in early 1910, Boy Scout movement quickly spread to the urban centers of Virginia’s Commonwealth...

About 5:30 a.m. Sunday. November 8, 1908, a fire began in the apartment over Dr. Lawrence S. Ricketts’ drugstore on Railroad Avenue. The...

On Tuesday, July 20, 1909, downtown Orange was again visited by a disastrous conflagration that burned a significant section of Chapman...

Like many towns in the Virginia Piedmont, Orange has a rich tradition surrounding America’s favorite past-time…baseball. Since the turn...

On February 10, 2010, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) celebrated its centennial, having been formally incorporated in 1910. The BSA is...

The first schoolhouse for the town’s Black children was located on the lot currently occupied by the Preddy Funeral Home on West Main...

James Taylor II was born in 1673-34, in New Kent, Virginia. He married Martha Thompson about 1699 in Orange County, and they had at least...

Troop 111, the only all-Black Boy Scout troop in Orange County, was organized in November 1967. The founding Boy Scouts were Harry...

By Jayne E. Blair Nathaniel Gordon was born on August 20, 1763, to Col. James Gordon and Mary Harrison in Merry Point, Virginia and died...

The Confederate Memorial Monument erected on the Orange County Courthouse grounds was unveiled on October 18, 1900. The monument is...

In 1749, the county court was moved to the newly designated county seat of Orange Court House from its location near Raccoon ford. During...

After the destructive fire of 1908 which destroyed a sizable part of downtown, Mayor Dr. Frank B. Perry and other town leaders decided...

James Madison was the fourth United States President (1809-1817) and is referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.” He made his home...

Throughout its history, the court of Orange County has convened in seven different buildings (four courthouses and three residences). The...

On August 2nd, Union Gen. Crawford with about 400 troopers of the 1st Vermont, 1st Michigan, and the 5th New York cavalry regiments...

Born in 1867, Lawrence S. Ricketts was an Orange native and graduated from the College of Pharmacy, University of Maryland. He returned...