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Print of Orange by L.R. Burleigh from 1883 with list of sights Orange was first settled by Europeans in 1746, created from lands in the towns of Royalston , Warwick and Athol . The lands were not fully settled until the latter parts of the century, becoming the District of Orange in 1783, and finally being incorporated as a town in 1810.
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 .
This is a list of villages in Massachusetts, arranged alphabetically. In Massachusetts, villages usually do not have any official legal status; all villages are part of an incorporated municipality (town or city - see List of municipalities in Massachusetts ) which is the smallest official form of government.
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 ...
Rowe employs the open town meeting form of government, and is led by a three-person Board of Selectmen. [ 19 ] The town has a police station, which also patrols neighboring Monroe, [ citation needed ] as well as a fire station, a library connected to the regional library network, and a post office, all of which are located near the Town Hall at ...
East branch of the Housatonic River, Main Street and Depot Street, 2008. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 21.9 square miles (56.7 km 2), of which 21.8 square miles (56.4 km 2) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km 2), or 0.45%, is water. [5]
Orange Municipal Airport, (ICAO: KORE, FAA LID: ORE) in Orange, Massachusetts, is a public airport owned by Town of Orange. It has two runways, averages 95 flights per day, and has approximately 46 aircraft based on its field.
Massachusetts Route 143 follows Route 112 briefly northeast from Worthington Corners but leads east to Chesterfield and Williamsburg, and west to Peru and Hinsdale. According to the United States Census Bureau , Worthington has a total area of 32.1 square miles (83.1 km 2 ), of which 31.9 square miles (82.7 km 2 ) are land and 0.2 square miles ...