List of current officers
(Elected to serve January 2009 Through December 2008)
President - Tommy Huff
Secretary - Lesylee Prejean-Gautreaux
Treasurer & Corresponding Secretary - Juanita Toronjo
Editor - Nancy Peveto
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Membership information
The Orange County Historical Society meets the second Tuesday
of each month at 6:30 PM at the Orange Public Library. Fifth and Main. Orange,
TX. Interested persons are urged to attend and. invited to become members.
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Las Sabinas -The Cypresses
The swamp Cypress of this area. one of the timber evergreen
conifers (Taxodium distichum), is that strange looking, but beautiful.
buttressed tree with those upward growths from its roots called knees. These
trees sometimes reach a height of eighty feet or more.1.
For countless years, the beauty of these cypresses was
known only to the Indian tribes-the Attacapa, the Anadarko, the Caddo and
others, who. in their fleet pirogues, used present day, used present day Texas
easternmost river and its tributaries as their highways.2
Then came the Spanish, who. in their musical language
called this stream which divided their new world territories from those of the
french, Rio de Sabinas, from las sabinas. the Cypresses, growing along its
banks. This designation was corrupted by the later arriving French and English
speaking people into "Sabine" by which name we know this waterway today.3
Loren LeBlanc
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