Struggle on the Orange Plank Road

Wilderness Exhibit Shelter

Crisis at the Crossroads

Crises followed one after another on May 5. No sooner had Grant and Meade learned about Ewell's approach on the Orange Turnpike than they discovered General A.P. Hill's corps moving up the Orange Plank road. ...

Clash on the Orange Turnpike

Wilderness Exhibit Shelter

The Battle of the Wilderness

On May 5, 1864, Lee moved swiftly eastward through Orange County and struck the Federals along two roads - the Orange Plank Road and the Orange Turnpike. Two bloody, largely separate battles exploded. They ...

The Orangeburg Massacre

On February 8, 1968, after three nights of escalating

racial tension over efforts by S.C. State College

students and others to desegregate the All Star

Bowling Lanes, 3 students died and 27 others were

wounded on this campus. S.C. Highway Patrolmen

fired on a crowd ...

Orange County Seat

County Seat

Orange, one of original N.Y. counties created 1683 by Assembly, Council and Gov. Thos. Dongen. Goshen became center for County government in the 1700’s.

Marker is on Main Street (New York Route 207) 0.2 miles south of Scotchtown Road (County ...

Orange County Courthouse, 1845-1957

Fourth on this Site

Designed and erected, 1844 – 45

by

John Berry of Hillsborough, 1798 – 1870

Builder, Architect, Legislator, Humanitarian

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Builder of distinguished structures in his native state

Contributor to the tradition of American architecture

Member of North Carolina Senate

1848, 1850, 1852, 1864, and 1866

Member ...

Thomas Edison’s West Orange Laboratory

The Invention Factory

In the fall of 1887, Thomas Edison moved into his new laboratory complex in the town of West Orange, N.J. For the next 44 years Edison directed teams of research assistants in his “Invention Factory” and created a ...

Orange County / Greene County

(West Side):Orange CountyFormed from Spotsylvania County in 1734, Orange County, a pastoral Piedmont county, was probably named in honor of William IV, the Dutch prince of Orange, who married Anne, the Princess Royal, daughter of George II of England, earlier ...

Revolutionary Militia of Orange and Ulster

Revolutionary Militia of Orange and Ulster assembled here, Dec., 1776. Col. Woodhull Camped Here, 1777. Dec., 1778, Militia met to March to Minisink

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 94) 0.1 miles from Academy Avenue (Route 94), on the left when ...

Colonial Orangetown

The “Towne of Orange” formed in the Tappan Patent grant of 1686-7 became the seat of provincial government of all Orange County, established in 1683, which then included this area, south of the mountains, set off as Rockland County in ...

Culpeper County / Orange County

(South facing side):

Culpeper County

Area 384 Square Miles

Formed in 1748 from Orange, and named for Lord Culpeper, Governor of Virginia, 1680-1683. The Battle of Cedar Mountain, 1862, was fought in this county.

(North facing side):

Orange County

Area 359 Square Miles

Formed in 1734 from ...