       Organized 1972-Reorganized 1974 Directors: Grace Clark Allbright, Frances Reid, Dorothy Meadows, |
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Organized 1972-Reorganized 1974 Directors: Grace Clark Allbright, Frances Reid, Dorothy Meadows, |
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LAS SABINAS information (OCHS publication)The Las Sabinas the official publication of the Orange County Historical Society is published quarterly since 1975, It is available through membership with payment of annual dues or may be purchased for $6.00 each |
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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, The mailing address is P. 0. Box 1345 Map to Library
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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 do 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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