Las Sabinas, Volume 21, Number 2, April 1995 Page: 1
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BOARD MEMBERS OF THE ORANGE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
(Elected December 1994 to serve through December 1996)
President Tommy Huff
Vice President Elaine Toal
Secretary Nancy Peveto
Treasurer Judy Dorman
Directors:
Arthur Black, Frances Reid, Marcelle Adams, Jane Childres,
Dr. Howard Williams
Orange County Historical Society
Organized 1972-Reorganized 1974
The Las Sabinas, the official publication of the Orange County Historical Society, is pub-
lished quarterly since 1975. It is available through membership with payment of annual dues or
may be purchased for $5 each.
The Orange County Historical Society meets the second Monday of each month at 7 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.O. Box 1345, Orange, TX 77631.
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.'
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
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 de Sabinas. from las Sabinas, the
cypresses, growing along its banks. This designation was corrupted by the later arriving
French and English speaking peoples into "Sabine" by which name we know this waterway
today.3
Loren LeBlanc
1. The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia. Vol. 5, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Chicago, 1973, p,1.
2. White, Edna McDaniel, East Texas Riverboat Era and Its Decline. LaBelle Printing & En-
graving, Co., Beaumont, 1967, p.2.
3. The Southwestern Historical Ouarterly. Vol. XXXIV,(July, 1935-Ap. 1936), The TexasHistorical Association, Austin, 1936.
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Orange County Historical Society (Tex.). Las Sabinas, Volume 21, Number 2, April 1995, periodical, April 1995; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth312892/m1/3/?q=technical+manual: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Orange County Historical Society.