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This map (image) shows the vast territory of the new County of Orange extending west across the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley to the Appalachian Mountains and beyond. County of Orange "bounded....westerly by the utmost limits of Virginia" January 1735.
- Orange County History
- Geography: Land and Water
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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 Siouan-speaking Manahoac tribe, 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 ...
As reported by the Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 343 square miles (889 km2), of which, 342 square miles (885 km2) of it is land and 2 square miles (4 km2) of it (0.50%) is water.
Orange County High School Germanna Community College maintains a 65,000 ft2 (6,000 m2) facility on a 100-acre campus in Locust Grove which houses the college's Nursing and Allied Health programs.
This map (image) shows the vast territory of the new Orange County extending west across the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley to the Appalachian Mountains and beyond - “...bounded....westerly by the utmost limits of Virginia”. [232]
For though this history will be mainly confined to the present narrow limits of the County, it ought to be known to those who may read it that Orange was once a principality in extent, embracing in her limits five prosperous states of the Union, and parts of two others.
Orange County originally was bounded by the Rappahannock River on the north, the Rapidan River on the south, and on the west by the "utmost limits of Virginia" Source: Memoir of Col. Joshua Fry (p.26)
In 1734 the General Assembly created Orange County with boundaries extending westward to "the utmost limits of Virginia," which according to the Second Charter of 1609 would be to the Pacific Ocean. 3
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Orange County included ‘all the territory of land adjoining to, and above said line, bounded southerly, by the line of Hanover County, northerly, by the grant of the Lord Fairfax, and westerly by the utmost limits of Virginia (and that included all the land north and west to the Great Lakes, and the Pacific Ocean) (Brown 1937:506-7).
