About Orange, Connecticut

Orange is a town of 14,280 people in New Haven County, with the Housatonic River on its western side. The Reverend Peter Prudden bought this land from its Native owners in 1639, paying in coats, blankets, hatchets, hoes, knives and mirrors. It was surveyed in 1687, but nobody settled for good until after 1700, when Richard Bryan, Jr., of Milford made his home here and the district became known as Bryan's Farms.

For more than a century this was North Milford, and by 1750 its farm families had enough children for a winter school. About 1790 they put up a meeting house for winter preaching, and in 1804 fifty petitioners won a church society of their own. In May 1822 the North Milford and West Haven parishes joined to form the town of Orange, named for William III, Prince of Orange. West Haven split off in 1921 by act of the General Assembly and took most of the town's built-up population, so Orange stayed mostly farmland until suburbs spread here in the postwar years.

“The Green was a goose pasture in those days, and we boys used to chase them about trying to make them shed their quills for pens to be used in school.”
Orange church centennial history, 1910
  • David Hoadley's church, 1810The North Milford church was organized March 13, 1805, with five members and Erastus Scranton as minister. A man born in the 1840s recalled that when Deacon Beach lay sick, his horse heard the Sunday bell, jumped the fences and trotted to its usual horse shed.
  • The oldest house in OrangeThe William Andrew House on Old Tavern Road is the oldest building left in Orange. One account says the Bryan family, the first settlers of North Milford, built it about 1750, and another credits William Andrew, about 1775. Its builders split the lath by hand and put it up without nails. Dairy farm workers later lived in it, and the town bought it in 2000 so the historical society could run it as a museum.
  • Colonel Platt and Tyler CityAsa Platt bought land at today's Tyler City Road in 1810 and built a Federal house about 1811, its woodwork credited to David Hoadley. The town later took it for taxes, ran it as the poor farm and sold it in 1847 to William Russell. After the Derby railroad came in 1871, a hamlet called Tyler City grew around its station, where Leonard Schaffnit made cigars from 1882 and Edward W. Russell opened a creamery in May 1890.
  • The House of TomorrowHenry F. Miller, a Yale architecture student, built a Derby Avenue house in 1948 and 1949 as his master's thesis. It had a flat roof, glass walls, movable inner walls. Shaded south windows let in winter but not summer sun, and the roof could be flooded to cool the rooms. The New Haven Register named it.
  • A country fair since 1898The Orange Country Fair first ran from 1898 to 1912. It came back in 1975 and still fills the fairgrounds at the High Plains Community Center with horse, oxen and tractor pulls and prizes for animals, flowers, fruits, vegetables and baked goods. Each August the volunteer firemen's carnival raises money there for the fire department.

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Names on the Orange map

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Places and landmarks27

  • Maltby Lakes West
  • Maltby Lakes North
  • Amity Middle School: Orange
  • Case Memorial Library
  • Church of the Good Shepherd
  • Congregation of Shalom
  • Ewen Farm Preserve
  • High Plains Community Center
  • Holy Infant Church
  • Housatonic Overlook
  • Kowal Nature Preserve
  • Marsh Hill
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  • Mary L. Tracy School
  • Old Tavern Road Recreation Area
  • Orange Center Historic District
  • Orange Congregation-Jehovahs Church
  • Orange Congregational Church
  • Orange Post Office
  • Orange Town Hall
  • Peck Place School
  • Race Brook School
  • Racebrook Tract
  • Temple Emanuel Library
  • Turkey Hill Preserve
  • Turkey Hill School
  • Wepawaug Conservation Area
  • West River

Streets and roads25

  • Baldwin Rd
  • Garden Rd
  • Terrace Rd
  • Shepherd Ln
  • Mapledale Rd
  • Dow Rd
  • Cranberry Ln
  • Hill Rd
  • Wheelers Farm Rd
  • Arrowhead Dr
  • Ridge Rd
  • City Rd
  • Sunset Ct
  • Karen Dr
  • Avon Dr
  • Marble Rd
  • Quintard Ln
  • Woodland Ln
  • Prindle Hill Rd
  • Treat Ln
  • Hitching Post Dr
  • W River Rd
  • Wilson Rd
  • Timberlane Dr
  • Marsh Hill Rd

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  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

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