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...

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

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...

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

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...

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