HISTORY OF ORANGE
Town of Orange. On May 14, 1921, a special meeting was held to consider creating a town out of the Orange Center School District. This plan was opposed by West Haven. However, this was consummated by the special act of the General Assembly of June 24, 1921. Charles R. Treat, who was a State Senator at that session of the Legislature, introduced (and succeeded in having passed) the bill which separated Orange from West Haven. This act provides that the division of the property rights and obligations of the former Town of Orange should be made by the Selectmen of both Orange and West Haven, working together. For this purpose, twenty-two joint sessions were held, and a complete agreement was reached in regard to all matters excepting the location of the boundary lines between the two Towns. The division act provides that the old Town of Orange shall comprise the territory lying west of the Northern and Western School Districts, which is the same as that comprised by the Orange Center School District. Only one boundary stone was found along the entire line, namely, on the south side of the Derby Turnpike. At the annual Town Meeting in 1905, territory was taken from the Northern and Western School Districts and put into the Tyler City District. This line having become fixed and long accepted in the manner above described, the Orange Board believed it had become legally established beyond the power of the two Boards to alter it. The Orange Board believed that the line adopted by the Town Meeting of 1905, until changed by competent authority, is still the true line between the two Towns. The basis of division between the two Towns, as provided by the Division Act, was on the grand list of the year 1920.
The officers elected for the new Town of Orange were:
Selectmen: Charles R. Treat, Edward L. Clark, Clifford E. Treat
Town Clerk: Arthur D. Clark
Treasurer: William T. Andrew
Tax Collector: Irving A. Andrew
Board of School Visitors: Chairman, Frank G. Baldwin
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