The next generation of Orange residents helped plant a maple tree on Thursday in celebration of the 175th anniversary of the proclamation of Orange as a village.
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Orange Mayor Reg Kidd planted the commemorative tree at Orange Botanic Gardens with students from a range of Orange schools.
About 50 people from various community groups, institutions, schools and Orange City Council attended the event at the Orange Botanic Garden's Clover Hill Function Centre.
Orange was proclaimed a village on November 18, 1846. The proclamation appeared in the government gazette on November 20, 1846.
"However, since then we've been explaining to people that we cannot grow Oranges," Cr Kidd joked.
(It) began with what was a sleepy few huts and a collection of dirt tracks.
- Orange mayor Reg Kidd
It was given its name by then surveyor-general Major Thomas Mitchell in honour of Prince William of Orange. Before then, Orange was known as Blackman's Swamp, after the chief constable of Bathurst, John Blackman.
Cr Kidd said the anniversary gives residents an opportunity to celebrate the community's achievements.
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"It's been a long journey that began with what was a sleepy few huts and a collection of dirt tracks," he said.
"Today Orange is one of the major regional cities of inland NSW, and Australia," Cr Kidd said.
"We're now a prosperous, multifaceted and multicultural city that has much to offer in education, health, commerce, mining, viticulture, horticulture, agriculture, cultural, sporting and leisure activities."
Cr Kidd said to celebrate the centenary 75 years ago, a tree was planted in Robertson Park but he felt the Orange Botanic Gardens was an appropriate location for the maple and various commemorative trees have been planted there over the years,
"This garden will be here for many, many centuries to come," Cr Kidd said.
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Tanya Marschke
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.
