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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, California. Orange County, often known by its initials O.C., is a county located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,186,989, making it the third-most-populous county in California, the sixth-most-populous in the United States, and more...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, Florida. The land that is Orange County was part of the first land to come up from below the Early Oligocene sea and is known as Orange Island. Orange County's Rock Spring location is a Pleistocene fossil-bearing area and has yielded a vast variety of birds and mammals including giant sloth, mammoth, camel, and the dire w...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, Indiana. Orange County was formed by the Indiana Territorial Legislature, on December 26, 1815. The early settlers were mostly Quakers fleeing the institution of slavery in Orange County, North Carolina. Jonathan Lindley brought his group of Quakers from North Carolina to the area in 1811. They were the first to build ...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Orange County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1752 and was named for the infant William V of Orange, whose mother Anne, daughter of King George II of Great Britain, was then regent of the Dutch Republic. Adjacent Counties Durham County Person County Chatham County Alamance County Caswell Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Santa Ana, California. Santa Ana is the county seat of Orange County. Official Website Members of the Tongva and Juaneño/Luiseño are indigenous to the area. The Tongva called the Santa Ana area "Hotuuk." After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolá out of Mexico City, then capital of New Spain, Friar Junípero Serra named the ar...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Irvine, Orange County, California. The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and it was fully incorporated in 1971. Official Website Villages Each of the villages was initially planned to have a distinct architectural theme. El Camino Glen | College Park | The Colony | Columbus Grove | Cypress Village | Deerf...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Huntington Beach, Orange County, California. Official Website The Tongva village of Lupukngna was located in what became Huntington Beach, with an approximate location near the Newland House Museum. The nearby village of Genga, shared with the Acjachemen, was located across the Santa Ana River in what became Newport Beach and Costa Mes...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fullerton, California. Official Website Fullerton was founded in 1887 and was named for George H. Fullerton, president of the Pacific Land and Improvement Company. Drilling for petroleum began in 1880 with the discovery of the Brea-Olinda Oil Field and fueled the first real boom, peaking in the 1920s. Construction reflected the vo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Anaheim, California . Official Website Overview Anaheim was founded by fifty German-American families in 1857 and incorporated as the second city in Los Angeles County on March 18, 1876; Orange County was split off from Los Angeles County in 1889. Anaheim remained largely an agricultural community until Disneyland opened in 1955. ...
This cemetery is located on 7845 Santiago Canyon Road, Orange, Orange County, California. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, New York. Official Website Orange County was officially established on November 1, 1683, when the Province of New York was divided into twelve counties. Each of these was named to honor a member of the British royal family, and Orange County took its name from the Prince of Orange, who subsequently became King Willia...
Official Web Site Orange County Historical Society No Matter What Befalls Me This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to Orange County Virginia. See the Related Projects for details. Orange County, Virginia was formed in 1734 from Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The first European settlement in what was to become Orange County was Germanna, formed when Governor Alexand...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, Vermont. Orange County was organized on February 2, 1781 as an original county within the state and was named for William, of Orange. Adjacent Counties Caledonia County Grafton County, New Hampshire Windsor County Washington County Addison County Towns, Villages & Communities Bradford Braintre...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, Texas. Official Website Orange County was formed in 1852. It was named after the orange fruit, the common citrus fruit grown by the early settlers of this county near the mouth of the Sabine River. Due to periodic spells of frost in the winter in Orange County, it is no longer the home of orange trees and citrus orcha...
Old Chapel Hill Cemetery resides on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina. Also known as University of North Carolina Cemetery, this cemetery saw its first burial on September 28, 1789. The cemetery is active at present, though the lots which are vacant now are designated to specific people. Find a Grave "The Old Chapel H...
This cemetery is located on 2300 Temple Drive, Winter Park, Orange County, Florida. Billion Graves Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in the Oddfellows Cemetery, Paoli, Orange County, Indiana. Find a Grave
Hillside Cemetery is located on Mulberry Street in Middletown, New York, United States. Opened in 1861, it was designed in the rural cemetery style by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, later noted for their collaboration on Central Park.[2] There are several thousand graves, some with excellent examples of 19th-century funerary art. Many of Middletown's prominent citizens of the late 19t...
In 1823, the Treaty of Moultrie Creek created a Seminole reservation encompassing much of central Florida, including the area that would become Orlando. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorized relocation of the Seminole from Florida to Oklahoma, leading to the Second Seminole War. In 1842, white settlement in the area was encouraged by the Armed Occupation Act. The first settler, Mr. Aaron Je...
Up until the 1880s, the people of Orlando had no permanent burial location, leading to many lost graves and confusion. After a heady newspaper campaign, by publisher Mahlon Gore, eight Orlando residents pulled together to buy 26 acres of land from John W. Anderson. A total of $1,800 was paid by: I.P. Wescott, C.A. Boone, James K. Duke, J.H. Livingston, Nat Poyntz, W.R. Anno, James Delaney and S...
This project is for those who are buried in Memory Garden Memorial Park, Brea, Orange County, California. Notable Interments Norma Zimmer (1923-2011) - Singer Links Official Website Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Moore's Ridge Cemetery, French Lick, Orange County, Indiana. Find a Grave IN Gen Web Genealogy Trails
Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Vermont [ ]
The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, V...
This cemetery is located on Christmas Cemetery Road in Christmas, Orange County, Florida. Find a Grave