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Orange is the easternmost town within Franklin County along its border with Worcester County. The town center lies 18 miles (29 km) east of Greenfield, 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Worcester, 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Springfield and 72 miles (116 km) west-northwest of Boston.
Orange is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Orange in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 4,018 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The area that is now the center of Orange was settled around 1785, when a bridge was built across the Millers River, which flows through it in a westerly direction toward the Connecticut River. [ citation needed ] The town grew in the first half of the 19th century as an industrial area, and its growth increased substantially with the arrival ...
Franklin County is a nongovernmental county in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census , the population was 71,029, [ 1 ] which made it the least populous county on the Massachusetts mainland, and the third least populous county in the state.
The Department of Public Works takes care of roadways, water works, sewage treatment, parks, and cemeteries. The towns of Athol and Orange cooperate with each other as neighbors, in spite of the county line that divides them. Some service providers for Athol are based in Franklin County, even though Athol sits in Worcester County.
Location of Franklin County in Massachusetts. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Massachusetts. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. Latitude and longitude ...
English: Orange Town Hall and Universalist Church, Main Street, Orange, Massachusetts. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .
The Historic American Buildings Survey funded by the WPA in the 1930s reported that this hall was one of only 20 GAR halls left in Massachusetts, of which only 4 were brick. It was the only brick hall that also had a turret tower. [3] According to the Town of Orange Massachusetts Historical Society, the building was torn down in the early 1990s.