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🍊Nonprofit formed in 1973 to research, collect & preserve City of Orange, CA history archives (photographs, written materials & related ephemera); host public events, activities & programs; give historical tours & join in community celebrations!

08/20/2026

💀🍊FROM GRIEF TO THE GRAVE, EXPLORING VICTORIAN DEATH CULTURE

🪦Venture through the veil to explore how superstition, customs and rituals defined the Victorian death culture.

⚰️We cordially invite you to an evening at the historic Masonic lodge of Old Towne Orange (rumored to be haunted!) with historian, death scholar, paranormal expert and ghost hostess (with Haunted Orange County) Darcy Staniforth bringing us this special program on Victorian Death Culture. While modern Americans might shy away from talking about death, grief, and loss, the Victorians were immersed in it. From the clothes and jewelry they wore, the way they decorated their houses, to picnicking among the dead, this special historical program will touch on all of that and more.

This program is a very special night of history and a chance to view inside the old Campbell Opera House, now the Masonic Lodge, all provided FREE from the Orange Community Historical Society in partnership with Haunted Orange County Ghost Tours, the Orange Grove Lodge F&AM #293 Orange Grove Lodge #293 Free And Accepted Masons and Darcy Staniforth.

📍71 Plaza Square, Old Towne Orange (Chase Bank Building, enter through door next to Bagel Me)

📆 Monday, September 21st

⏰ 6:00pm

✅ No RSVP needed, bring your family and friends!

08/05/2026

📣🍊FREE Opening Reception: “A Brief History of El Modena”

📆 THIS Thursday August 6th

⏰5:30 PM 6:30 PM

📍El Modena Branch Library

🤗 Exhibit information is presented in both English and Spanish, join us for refreshments and community mingling, invite everyone!

🗣️This new exhibit takes visitors on a journey from the founding of the Quaker settlement of Modena in 1885 through the improvements to El Modena championed by Jess Perez, Orange’s first Latino councilman and mayor.

The exhibit showcases photographs and artifacts from the citrus industry that attracted families, including those of Lorenzo A. Ramirez, to the growing Mexican community in El Modena.

A central highlight of the exhibit is the Ramirez family and their landmark court case, Mendez et al. v. Westminster, which ended the segregation of Mexican American students in California public schools and set a significant precedent for desegregation nationwide.

Additionally, the exhibit features an oil painting by Emigdio Vasquez along with the tools he used to paint scenes that honor Mexican American history.

07/28/2026

📣TONIGHT!🍊 Our FREE public program celebrating the 1976 red white and blue celebration…the Orange way, comes to the Orange Public Library!

❤️🤍💙🧡As America turns 250, join us for a trip down memory lane while we look back at the celebration of America’s Bicentennial in 1976!

👀 During our FREE public history program with Lisa Lisa Ackerman Baldwin revisit what the country was doing to celebrate and work our way down to how the city of Orange marked that milestone, the Orange way! ❤️🤍💙🧡

🕺🏽Have some fun and wear your favorite 70s gear or dress in your favorite patriotic outfits!

🗓️ Tuesday, July 28th

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library Community Room
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

07/27/2026

📣🕺🏽Get your finest 70’s gear ready!🍊 Our FREE public program celebrating the 1976 red white and blue celebration…the Orange way, comes to the Orange Public Library tomorrow!

❤️🤍💙🧡As America turns 250, join us for a trip down memory lane while we look back at the celebration of America’s Bicentennial in 1976!

👀 During our next FREE public history program with Lisa Lisa Ackerman Baldwin revisit what the country was doing to celebrate and work our way down to how the city of Orange marked that milestone, the Orange way! ❤️🤍💙🧡

🕺🏽Have some fun and wear your favorite 70s gear or dress in your favorite patriotic outfits!

🗓️ Tuesday, July 28th

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library Community Room
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

07/24/2026

📣Next Tuesday!🍊 Our FREE public program celebrating the 1976 red white and blue celebration…the Orange way, comes to the Orange Public Library!

❤️🤍💙🧡As America turns 250, join us for a trip down memory lane while we look back at the celebration of America’s Bicentennial in 1976!

👀 During our next FREE public history program with Lisa Lisa Ackerman Baldwin revisit what the country was doing to celebrate and work our way down to how the city of Orange marked that milestone, the Orange way! ❤️🤍💙🧡

🕺🏽Have some fun and wear your favorite 70s gear or dress in your favorite patriotic outfits!

🗓️ Tuesday, July 28th

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library Community Room
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

07/22/2026

ONE WEEK AWAY! 🇺🇸🍊it’s 1976 in Orange! As America turns 250, join us for a trip down memory lane while we look back at the celebration of America’s Bicentennial in 1976!

👀 During our next FREE public history program with Lisa Lisa Ackerman Baldwin revisit what the country was doing to celebrate and work our way down to how the city of Orange marked that milestone, the Orange way! ❤️🤍💙🧡

Have some fun and wear your favorite 70s gear or dress in your favorite patriotic outfits!

🗓️ Tuesday, July 28th

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library Community Room
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

07/02/2026

🇺🇸🍊As America turns 250, join us for a trip down memory lane while we look back at the celebration of America’s Bicentennial in 1976!

👀 During our next FREE public history program revisit what the country was doing to celebrate and work our way down to how the city of Orange marked that milestone, the Orange way! ❤️🤍💙🧡

🗓️ Tuesday, July 24th

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library Community Room
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

05/19/2026

📣TOMORROW! 🍊Our FREE Orange History Program is BACK with “Orange Army Navy Store through the Years”!

🗣️we welcome Mike Alvarez who will share what it was like to begin a business in Orange’s downtown after the war, how they have evolved & give us an overview of their building’s history, including parts not accessible to the public!

We can’t wait to see everyone!

✨🍊✅ No RSVP needed, bring all your family and friends!

📢 “Orange Army Navy Store through the Years”

📆 Tuesday, May 19th, 2026

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library & History Center,
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

👩‍💻 HistoricalOrange.org

05/13/2026

📣ONE WEEK! 🍊Our FREE Orange History Program is BACK with “Orange Army Navy Store through the Years”!

🗣️we welcome Mike Alvarez who will share what it was like to begin a business in Orange’s downtown after the war, how they have evolved & give us an overview of their building’s history, including parts not accessible to the public!

We can’t wait to see everyone!

✨🍊✅ No RSVP needed, bring your family and friends!

📢 “Orange Army Navy Store through the Years”

📆 Tuesday, May 19th, 2026

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library & History Center,
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

👩‍💻 HistoricalOrange.org

05/06/2026

TWO weeks away! 📣🍊Our FREE Orange History Program is BACK with “Orange Army Navy Store through the Years”!

🗣️Next month, we welcome Mike Alvarez who will share what it was like to begin a business in Orange’s downtown after the war, how they have evolved & give us an overview of their building’s history, including parts not accessible to the public!

We can’t wait to see everyone!

✨🍊✅ No RSVP needed, bring your family and friends!

📢 “Orange Army Navy Store through the Years”

📆 Tuesday, May 19th, 2026

⏰ 5:30pm to 7:00pm

📍 Orange Public Library & History Center,
407 E Chapman Ave, Old Towne Orange

👩‍💻 HistoricalOrange.org

Address

PO Box 5484
Orange, CA
92863

Telephone

+17142027570

Website

http://www.HistoricalOrange.org/, https://www.instagram.com/historicalorange/

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