High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The area was previously inhabited by the Siouan Manahoac tribe, the first white settlement in what was to become Orange County was Germanna. It was there in 1714 that Governor Alexander Spotswood settled 12 families from Westphalia, Germany—42 people in all. The legal entity of Orange County was established in 1734 from a portion of Spotsylvania County. However, unlike other counties which had terminated at the Blue Ridge, Orange at its creation was conceived of as extending all the way to the Mississippi River and Great Lakes - land claimed by Virginia, but very little of which had yet been occupied by any English.

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