
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 below to submit a request. We ask that you allow two weeks for the research to be completed.
Early Orange County
Colonial Times
Civil War & Reconstruction
Nannie Helen Burroughs Orange Graded School
The Fried Chicken Ladies of Gordonsville
Robert E. Lee in Orange County
Lee's Encampment during Winter 1863-64
Robert E. Lee and St. Thomas's Episcopal Church
Photos of the Wilderness (Mathew Brady)
Shelter for Civil War Soldiers
Recreation for Civil War Soldiers
Civil War around Woodberry Forest
Dawn to Dust, A Day in the Life of a Soldier
Freedmen's Bureau in Gordonsville
Mine Run Campaign: A Soldier's View
Note Written by Civil War Soldier
President Hayes Visits Orange, 1878
Turn of the 20th Century
World War l
Roaring 20s & Depression Era
World War ll
Andrew Maples Update
Staff Sergeant William Breckenridge Grymes
D-Day Veterans Remembered
William “Billy” Barton Mason, Jr
Hezekiah Clarence Turner
Tech 5 Edward Hill Richardson, Sr
Sergeant Tyrus Heber “Ty” Tisdale
PFC Charles Franklin Grasty
TSgt Robert Paul Mason Wiltshire
Master Sergeant William McKendree Andrews
Sgt Jesse Cleveland Lohr
Staff Sgt Edward Wallace Hughes
Tech 5 Edward Parker Harris
William Randolph Clatterbuck
Civil Rights
End of Segregation: A Black Boy Scout Troop in Orange
Gussie B. Taylor
OC in the 20th Century
African American Baseball
OC Schools
People
Five Virginia Governors from Orange County
George Lewis
Maps
Historic maps of OC
VA counties (without names)
VA counties (with names)
1734 Postcard Map of OC
Rapidan Line
Fords over the Rapidan
Prohibition Map of Virginia
Map of Early Roads
Miscellaneous
The video “Right Here in Orange County!” by Frank Walker and Phil Audibert is an overview
of the uniqueness of Orange County History.

