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Orange is a town and the county seat of Orange County, Virginia, United States. The population was 5,062 at the 2020 census , representing a 7.2% increase since the 2010 census . [ 5 ] Orange is 28 miles (45 km) northeast of Charlottesville , 88 miles (142 km) southwest of Washington, D.C. , and 4 miles (6 km) east of Founding Father and fourth ...
Orange County is a county located in the Central Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. At the 2020 census, the population was 36,254. [2] Its county seat is Orange. [3] Orange County includes Montpelier, the 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) estate of James Madison, the 4th President of the United States and often known as the "Father of the ...
Montpelier (Orange, Virginia) / 38.21972°N 78.16944°W / 38.21972; -78.16944. James Madison's Montpelier, located in Orange County, Virginia, was the plantation house of the Madison family, including Founding Father and fourth president of the United States James Madison and his wife, Dolley. The 2,650-acre (1,070 ha) property is open ...
Mayhurst. / 38.236222°N 78.114806°W / 38.236222; -78.114806. Mayhurst is an 1859 Italianate mansion in Orange, Virginia. It was built by the Willis family relatives of President James Madison as the plantation house for an estate comprising 2,500 acres (10 km 2) of fields, pastures and forest. It was a scene of action in the Civil War.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The Hampstead Farm Archeological District is the site of a significant collection of Native American prehistoric and historic settlement remains in rural Orange County, Virginia. A survey of the farm's 780 acres (320 ha) in 1983 identified 49 different sites of archaeological interest.
Hare Forest Farm. / 38.28667°N 78.07944°W / 38.28667; -78.07944. Hare Forest Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Orange, Orange County, Virginia, United States. The main house was built in three sections starting about 1815. It consists of a two-story, four-bay, brick center block in the Federal style, a two-story ...
Ellwood Manor is the Georgian-style home completed c. 1790 by William Jones, formerly in Spotsylvania County, Virginia but now in Orange County, Virginia.For more than a century, it was the center of a large, thriving plantation not far from the Chancellorsville crossroads on the Plank Road between Fredericksburg and Orange, Virginia which is now Virginia State Route 3.