As one who currently lives in Orion Township, let me help. There is a downtown area that has a different local government, which is the Village of Lake Orion. Surrounding the downtown area is Orion Township which has a separate governmental body. The one post office (Lake Orion) serves both as does the Orion Township library. If anyone needs additional info or a lookup from here, let me know. Mary Jo in Orion >From: ChristieTrapp@aol.com >To: MIOAKLAN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MIOAKLAN] Orion - Lake Orion >Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:40:27 -0400 > >Orion and Lake Orion should be one and the same. Way back when, it used to >be known as Orion rather than Lake Orion. It is on a lake. I have been >reading the local newspapers checking for obits and happenings of the local >town folk, and some time in the 1960's I believe it was, they changed the >name of the newspaper from Orion Weekly Review to Lake Orion Review. > >Therefore, I believe the town made the decision to also change its name to >reflect the fact that it is on a lake. > >So, if you are looking in the census records in the past, it was known as >Orion or Orion Village or Orion Twp. Then it became Lake Orion. > >Christie Trapp > > >==== MIOAKLAN Mailing List ==== >You can contact the listowner at Judy@BirdGenealogy.org > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlb&pgmarket=en-us/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/