ORANGE COUNTY NY HISTORY RESOURCES: Genealogy & Special Topics

Park owned by Orange County, museum by the Neversink Museum Assn.

Re-enactors group; primary documents, regiment history.

History of Middletown in the Civil War, and documenting the graves of veterans.

Association of descendants of soldiers based in Goshen; area graves of soldiers, preservation projects.

Information about the history of the college in Middletown, and the Horton family.

Scans of glass plate negatives with descriptions by costume historian.

Museum in Montgomery has exhibits on the history of firefighting in the County, Hall of Honor, etc.

Various regional legends, primarily colonial or Revolutionary era, some Orange County-- including the mastodon discovery, Claudius Smith, Warwick's Lieutenant Burt, , Minisink Battle, etc.

Historic text on mineral resources.

Webpage of "Sugar", the Mastodon at Suny Orange, and other Orange County mastodons

Celebrating the historic discovery of 1801, from the American Philosophical Society.

Segments of Discovery Channel special on the excavation in Hyde Park which aired in 2001.

A selection of images and documents from the collections of the Maybrook Railroad Historical Society

Railroad headquartered in Warwick. Compiled by Marty Feldner

Articles, photos, etc. of railroad.

Includes articles.

The most comprehensive regional collection of local genealogical resources.

Web-based research resources contributed by volunteers.

Miscellaneous transcriptions of gravestones contributed by volunteers.

Scanned microfilm of the various Orange County census years. Use in conjunction with the census search in Ancestry to narrow down to the Town, (you can view brief info. for free) then you can look through that town's pages to find the name.

Free access to the 1880 census available from Ancestry.com. You will be prompted to set up an account, but access to this census is free and no credit card information is collected.

Images of probate records; no indexes.