. The Oranges and their points of interest, embracing Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange and Orange valley. es. Of late years, however, this latter business has drifted away fromOrange, and this industry is of comparatively small importance here. Two hundred years ago, when theearly settlers arrived in Orange, the first industrial pursuit they were called upon to engage in was theclearing of small patches on which to erect their cabins and rear the crops for the support of themselvesand their families. Looking arround them they saw dense forests of sturdy oaks, lofty pines, branchi
. The Oranges and their points of interest, embracing Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange and Orange valley. es. Of late years, however, this latter business has drifted away fromOrange, and this industry is of comparatively small importance here. Two hundred years ago, when theearly settlers arrived in Orange, the first industrial pursuit they were called upon to engage in was theclearing of small patches on which to erect their cabins and rear the crops for the support of themselvesand their families. Looking arround them they saw dense forests of sturdy oaks, lofty pines, branchinghemlocks, silvery beeches, and graceful ash and maple. The red men, peaceful and friendly, becausedealt with in a spirit of honor and fairness, yet roamed the by-paths that led through the forest to themountain top, or built their wigwams along the brooks that flowed through the grassy valleys below. Bears,foxes and wild animals ran at large where are now superb drives, crowded with fashionable turnouts. Theclearing away of the timber became a source of profitable revenue to the pioneer settlers, as they found a. On i hi Canal, Ni ak Bloomfield. ORANGE AND ITS POINTS OF INTER1 31 ready market for staves and headings in Newark and New York. The purchasers were sloop owners sail-ing between those ports and the West Indies, the staves and headings being converted into sugar andmolasses hogsheads. The demand for these articles led to the establishment of sawmills. The pioneersawmill, as nearly as can be ascertained, was erected on Wigwam brook in 1728, by Samuel Harrison, ason of one of the original settlers. It stood about sixty rods north of the residence of the late JudgeJesse Williams, on the corner of Day and Washington streets. Mathew Williams, also a descendent ofone of the first settlers, built a sawmill still further up the Wigwam brook, and later on two of his descend-ants, Samuel and Amos Williams, constructed a tannery on the same brook. This tannery was for manyyears
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