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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.

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World War ll

​American Silk Mill

Andrew Maples, Jr.

Andrew Maples Update

Staff Sergeant William Breckenridge Grymes

D-Day Veterans Remembered

From Luxembourg to Germany

The Gipson Boys WWII 

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

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Staff Sgt Edward Wallace Hughes

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Tech 5 Edward Parker Harris

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William Randolph Clatterbuck

Civil Rights

End of Segregation: A Black Boy Scout Troop in Orange

Gussie B. Taylor

OC in the 20th Century

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.

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