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History · Orange Township

35% of Orange Township’s homes were built before 1940

4 places in town are on the National Register.

4on the National Register
35%homes built before 1940
On the National Register

4 historic places in Orange Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
4
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
9
each building in a district counts
first listed
1983
Forsythe Covered Bridge
BuildingsStructures

Architectural styles listings

Second Empire1
Italianate1
Transverse Frame Barn1
I-House1
Transverse Frame1

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Orange Township

Nobody well known was born in Orange Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Moscow
1827–1907
Gowdy
1890–1903
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
GowdyMoscow
Gone or out of use
McCorkle Quarrymine
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Orange Township
McCartyMount MorrisonRadar - Bowman - WorlandVienna

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Questions about Orange Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Orange Township?

4 listings: 2 buildings and 2 structures. 9 historic buildings in all.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (4), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.