LibGuides: Local History: General History

Books from our collection

These books are available in our catalog to be loaned or viewed at our library. Those in the Public Domain that have been digitized can be viewed by clicking on the "Digital Copy" link below the book title.

A short history of Orange County, N.Y. by Malcolm A. Booth
Publication Date: 1975
Orange County: a chronicle of three centuries : an illustrated history of three centuries by Patricia E. Clyne; Patty Salkeld (Photographer)
Publication Date: 1991
The Concise History of Orange County by A. Elwood
Publication Date: 1993
Old Orange County : a collection of drawings and engravings
Publication Date: 1977
An outline history of Orange county : with an enumeration of the names of its towns, villages, rivers, creeks, lakes, ponds, mountains, hills and other known localities, and their etymologies or historical reasons therefor ; together with local traditions by Samuel W. Eagers
Publication Date: 1846

Digital Copy
Courtesy of the Library of Congress

From Half Moon to Suburbia : a brief history of Orange County, New York.
Publication Date: 1970
The history of Orange County, New York by Russel Headley
Publication Date: 1908

In two volumes.

Digital Copy
Courtesy of the Library of Congress

Orange County, a journey through time : a text on local history
Publication Date: 1983
Index to the 1881 Ruttenber and Clark history of Orange County, New York : an index by Orange County Genealogical Society
Publication Date: 1979

Digital Copy
Courtesy of the University of Wisconson

History of Orange County, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. by Edward Manning Ruttenber
Publication Date: 1881

Digital Copy
Courtesy of the Library Of Congress

Outposts of history in Orange county by Dwight Akers
Publication Date: 1974

Magazines and Journals

OCHS journal publication of the Orange County Historical Society
Publication Date: 1985-

Volumes: 6-7, 23, 28, 31-42
Orange County Genealogical Society quarterly

Digital Media

Genealogy and history of Orange County, New York
1 CD-ROM: Graveyard Inscriptions of Orange County, NY -- The History of Orange County, NY -- An Outline History of Orange County -- Index to Eager's History of Orange County -- Portrait and Biographical Record of Orange County, NY -- Orange County Patriot: a newspaper published at Goshen NY: Marriages and Deaths from May 1828 to Dec. 1831 -- St. James Protestant Episcopal Church Records

County History Resources

Orange County Historian
Official website of the County Historian's office.
Orange County Historical Society
Official website of the Orange County Historical Society.
Orange County Genealogical Society
Official website of the Orange County Genealogical Society.