| |
| | Handbook of Texas Online: |
 | | Orange, also known as the "Gateway City," is the county seat of Orange County. |
 | | By 1914, when its population numbered 7,000, Orange had three banks, a paper mill, a bag manufacturer, a box factory, a shipyard, an oil refinery, and an ironworks; at that time it also had three schools for white students, with 1,500 pupils, and one school for fl students, with 300 pupils. |
 | | Later, Orange, along with Beaumont and Port Arthur, came to be considered part of an industrial Golden Triangle; it became a major manufacturing center as well as a seaport. |
| www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/OO/heo1.html (1145 words) |
|