Leading business men of Greenfield and vicinity; embracing also Turners Falls, Orange, and Athol .. . quite prolific in businessadvancement and expansion, several large industries being established, amongothers, the first clothiers works, in 1798, by Chas. Sears. The first Congrega-tional church had been established in 1781, and this was followed by the first 34 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF OBANGE. Methodist class, organized in 1795; the Second Congregational Society in1837 ; the Baptist in 1834; the Third Congregational in 1843; and the FourthCongregational in 1846. A TJniversalist Society was also e
Leading business men of Greenfield and vicinity; embracing also Turners Falls, Orange, and Athol .. . quite prolific in businessadvancement and expansion, several large industries being established, amongothers, the first clothiers works, in 1798, by Chas. Sears. The first Congrega-tional church had been established in 1781, and this was followed by the first 34 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF OBANGE. Methodist class, organized in 1795; the Second Congregational Society in1837 ; the Baptist in 1834; the Third Congregational in 1843; and the FourthCongregational in 1846. A TJniversalist Society was also established, in 1851,in the South Village of Orange. Not materially effected by the war of 1812, the town of Orange continuedto develop quietly and steadily in the lines of progress now established. Itwas incorporated as a town, February 24, 1810, and has since enjoyed one ofthe most conservative and model of New England town governments. In theyear 1800, $250 had been raised for educational purposes, and this importantdepartment has received increasing attention ever since. The first post-oflBce. was opened in 181G, Lyman Harrington being the postmaster. Six [yearslater, 1822, the increase of business in the southern section of the town causedthe establishment of a i30st-office in South Orange. This section has nowbecome the most populous and wealthy part of the town, and has come to becalled Orange simjily, while that part formerly so called is now known as NorthOrange. In 1837, the size of Oranges territory was increased by the annexationof the Northern part of New Salem, called Little Grant, and the east part ofErvings Grant. During the same year a town-hall was erected in the sectionthen called South Orange, which was the first outward sign of the transferal ofthe center of town-life thitherward. In extent, Orange is about fifteen miles inlength from north-east to south-west, and its Midth varies from two and a halfto fifteen miles. The population had grown in 1850 to 1738,
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