Orange County - A Journey Through Time
Orange County - A Journey Through Time
The book cover is dark blue with gold text reading "Orange County: A Journey Through Time."
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Orange County - A Journey Through TimeEntry/Object ID
chs-015679Description
"Orange County - A Journey Through Time," a local hardcover history book with an emphasis on the teaching of local history at the fourth grade level. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER TITLE PAGE Introduction 1 1 Your County, Orange 2 2 Early History 10 3 Land Patents of Orange County 20 4 The First Settlers 27 5 Schools and Schooling 47 6 The Revolutionary War Focus on Events 56 7 The Revolutionary War: Focus on People 62 8 Conflict stirs Emotion 77 9 Transportation: On Land 83 10 Transportation: Waterways 91 11 Transportation: The Railroads 99 12 Colonia1 Times 111 13 Products and Produce 118 14 Villages 130 15 Business and Industry: A Sampling 138 16 The Past Joins the Present 160Context
"Ulster BOCES. The project grew out of the State Education Department’s updated social studies curriculum which places emphasis on the teaching of local history at the fourth grade level. Since there were only scattered materials available at local libraries, the Orange-Ulster BOCES Curriculum Advisory Council proposed the writing of a local history book. In June of 1982 the school districts appointed delegates to the Local History Committee for the purpose of assembling the manuscript and gathering suitable pictures. The OrangeUlster BOCES undertook the supervisory role and held meetings from June through October for the purpose of coordinating the project. Each representative was responsible for preparing a list of subjects persons, places, events which were to be recommended for inclusion in the book. In the early fall the Committee reviewed and pared down the text to manageable proportions. After several revisions by the Project Editor, various Historical Editors and the BOCES Director, the book went to print in January. It will now enable Orange County’s fourth graders to give their elders some interesting local history lessons. Among those instrumental in the writing of “Orange County - A Journey Through Time” were Carol Ravert of Chester, Nancy Kasch of Monroe-Woodbury, and Martha Diederich of Washingtonville." by Inez Tobin, published in the Orange County Post., 15 March 1983Collection
Loretta WinklerCategory
Orange County
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