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Orange County (Va.) Minute Book, 1825-1827, record all matters brought before the court on a daily basis when it was in session including but not limited to: civil and criminal suits, appointments of county officers, appointments of guardians and administrators, deed recordings, free negro registrations, naturalization registrations, and court fees. Clerks would transfer information from minute books to appropriate order book, deed book, fiduciary book, free negro register, etc.

Orange County (Va.) Organization Records, 1866-1897 is comprised of various records created by groups in Orange County. Represented records largely consist of unprocessed loose records. These records typically consist of appointments of trustees, minutes, and miscellaneous records of religious organizations, fraternal organizations, independent associations, and cooperatives.

Orange County (Va.) Public Buildings and Grounds, 1752-1900. The materials consist of reports, bills, proposals, orders and correspondence related to the courthouse, clerk's office, jail and other county facilities. Included are bills, correspondence, and orders for repairs; a petition for a workhouse (1807); jail inspectors' reports; a broadside for the sale of the clerk's office lot (1894); and a reciept for an engraving of the marble medallion bust of James Madison by Giuseppe Ceracchi.

Orange County (Va.) Records Related to the Registration of Free Persons, 1803-1860, consists of the one register, "List of Free Negroes," 1803-1850; "free negro" registrations, 1831-1860; and affidavits, 1817-1829.

Orange County (Va.) Taylor District School Census, 1915, contains an alphabetical list of families with school-age children living in the Taylor school district in Orange County in 1915. Each entry lists the name of a head of household and the name, age, and gender of each child in the household between the ages of 6 and 18. The census also indicates what children could not read. The school district was segregated by race and designated "white."