If you grew up in Orange in the 1950s, you may remember the large playground located on Belleview Avenue behind the current Orange County...

Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, agriculture and manufacturing in and around Orange increased and laid the...

On the night of February 1, 1965, a two freight cars of a north-bound Southern Railroad train loaded with steel beams derailed and...

Better known as “A.J.” or “Preacher” Harlow, Adoniram Judson Harlow was one of Orange’s most successful entrepreneurs of the early 20th...

During the first few decades of the twentieth century, Orange's dominance as a railroad center began to decline. Trains continued to stop...

Andrew Maples, Jr. grew up on Church Street in Orange, Virginia, and he graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington, DC in 1939....

In the mid-18th century, residential and commercial “developer” was a term that was unheard of. However, Timothy Crosthwaite, a...