This church was established in 1863 under the leadership of the Rev. Joseph Wood Dunn, an area missionary. The earliest services were conducted in the home of Jerome Swinford. His...
The First Christian Church of Orange began in 1885 when a group of residents started meeting for worship services. Some of these charter members were baptized in the Sabine River. The...
Until the industrial revolution reached Orange in the late 1880s, most banking needs in the area were handled through Galveston.The growth of Orange as a lumber center and deep water...
This Tree Planted March 7, 1927ForColonel Thos. D.BoydByDr. James Arthur TuckerUniversity Physician
Scene of Civil War skirmish in fall of 1862. C.1850 Greek Revival plantation house owned 1854-1869 by Charles A. Kock, a prominent sugar planter. Listed on National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
"IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN COMRADES OF THE FIRST MARINE DIVISION AT CAPE GLOUCESTER, 1943."
(abridged:) Here the conductor François-Antoine Habeneck revealed BEETHOVEN to the Parisian public (1828)Here HECTOR BERLIOZ performed the Symphonie Fantastique, Lélio, Harold en Italie, Roméo...
(abridged:) Here the conductor François-Antoine Habeneck revealed BEETHOVEN to the Parisian public (1828)Here HECTOR BERLIOZ performed the Symphonie Fantastique, Lélio, Harold en Italie, Roméo...
ON THIS SITE IN 1861 JULIUS STURGIS ESTABLISHED THE FIRST PRETZEL BAKERY IN THE NEW WORLD THIS TABLET DEDICATED BY THE NATIONAL PRETZEL BAKERS INSTITUTE MAY 1951 ALEX V. TISDALE, PRES. Submitted...
James Wall Finn The celebrated American muralist and decorative artist James Wall Finn lived here from 1900 until his death, first as a boarder, and then with his wife, Florence Lee Quinn, and...