Orange County History

If you a have an article about Orange County or its history, or a photo of an event in Orange County's past and would like to share it with us we will gladly post it on these pages. Please contact me and we will figure out the how-to's. Thanks. Shirley

Orange County Firefighters of the Past.
Orange Leader 1985

A & M Mothers' Club

American Columbus Society

Bridge City Chamber of Commerce

CSS Josiah H. Bell Confederate gunboat in Orange County

Demise of Bigtooth

Early Settlers

The Hanging Tree

Madisonville Lodge

Henry J. Lutcher Orange County sawmill history

Orange Fire Department History

Orange, TX the beginning

Order of Confederate Rose

Order of the Eastern Star

Rainbow Bridge Orange County on the move

Robert B. Russell Veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto

Early Sawmills Spawned Iron Works

Sacred Heart Hospital

Steamboat Florilda

Unusual Incidents in the Orange County Sheriff's Office 1852-1892

U.S.S. Orleck

War of 1856 an Orange County racial disruption

William Diamond Chapter DAR

William Smith

Woodbine Rebekah Lodge

History in Photos a unique look at Orange County

History of Orange County from The Handbook of Texas Online

Orange County Ghost Towns and Their History

Lemonville, TX

Terry, TX

Orange County Sawmills and Their History

Antebellum Orange County Sawmills
From W. T. Block, "East Texas Mill Towns and Ghost Towns, Vol I, pp. 245-297, copyrighted 1994, Piney Woods Foundation, Lufkin, TX.
(This article has been divided into sections to correspond with the individual titles in this section with a summary and endnotes in the last selection.)

Part B - The Alexander Gilmer Lumber Mills

Part C - The D. R. Wingate Lumber Company

Part D - The A. K. Norris Sawmill

Part E - The Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company

Part F - The Russell and Son Shingle Company

Part G - The Josiah Jordan Shingle Mill

Part H - The Thomas Bancroft and Sons Mills

Part I - Kirby Lumber Company's "Mill D" at Orange

Part J - The Leopold Miller Lumber Interests

Part K - The Miller-Link Lumber Company

Part L - The Orange Lumber Company

Part M - Sawmills and Logging Elsewhere in Orange County

Part N - The A. E. Smith Mills and The Miller-Vidor Lumber Company

Part O - Summary and Footnotes

Many thanks to W. T. Block for allowing us to use his many articles on Orange County History on these pages.
Shirley and Elaine

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