Best of Orange County 2018: Best downtown

Orange
Mile-square area with Plaza Park at Glassell Street and Chapman Avenue at its center; cityoforange.org
In a roundabout way, Old Towne Orange serves as the county’s most visual link to its early history. Plaza Park, the town square in the middle of a traffic circle, dates back to the 1800s, and it and the businesses along Chapman Avenue and Glassell Street are in the center of the district that is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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