Orange County History
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Orange County Firefighters of the Past.
Orange Leader 1985
A & M Mothers' Club
American Columbus Society
Bridge City Chamber of
Commerce
City of Orange Police Department
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, ed
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.