
Educator Resources
Welcome! The Orange County Historical Society is committed to the teachers of Orange County in their quest to teach a comprehensive history of the United States supported by the richness of local history. History taught in schools is usually focused on US or world history but those histories ignore the places that students see everyday.
Local history is found in the names of streets and roads, the buildings and schools, and roadside markers passed daily by students in buses. Knowing and incorporating local history into US and world history gives meaning to broader events and helps students understand and appreciate their own world.
If you are a teacher and have specific questions or seek facts that are not currently displayed, we can help.
Please use the form to the right to submit a request. We ask that you allow two weeks for the research to be completed.
Early Orange County
Colonial Times
Before the Civil War
Civil War & Reconstruction
Video: Little Petersburg
Turn of the 20th Century
World War l
Roaring 20s & Depression Era
World War ll
Hezekiah Clarence Turner
Civil Rights
OC in the 20th Century
OC Schools
People
Maps
Miscellaneous
The video “Right Here in Orange County!” by Frank Walker and Phil Audibert is an overview
of the uniqueness of Orange County History.

