Orange County, Virginia
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About Orange County
Orange County is located in the central Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 36,254. Its county seat is Orange. Orange County includes Montpelier, the 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) estate of James Madison, the 4th president of the United States and often known as the "father of the Constitution". The county celebrated its 290th anniversary in 2024.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Facts
Orange County at a glance
- County seat
- Orange
- Population
- 36,254 (2020)
- Land area
- 343 sq mi
- Founded
- 1734
Communities
Largest communities in Orange County
- Lake of the Woodspopulation 8,081
- Orange County seatpopulation 4,880
- Gordonsvillepopulation 1,402
- Barboursvillepopulation 177
History
History of Orange County
The area was inhabited for thousands of years by various cultures of indigenous peoples. At the time of European encounter, the Ontponea, a sub-group of the Tutelo-speaking Manahoac, lived in this Piedmont area. The first European settlement in what was to become Orange County was Germanna, formed when Governor Alexander Spotswood settled 12 immigrant families from Westphalia, Germany, there in 1714; a total of 42 people. Orange County, as a legal entity, was created in August 1734 when the Virginia House of Burgesses adopted An Act for Dividing Spotsylvania County. Unlike other counties whose boundaries had ended at the Blue Ridge Mountains, Orange was bounded on the west "by the utmost limits of Virginia" which, at that time, stretched to the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. The Colony of Virginia claimed the land, but very little of it had yet been occupied by any English.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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