Lake Orion ( pronounced OR-ee-en ) is a village in Oakland County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

" Lake Orion " is often used to describe both the village and the much larger Orion Township, of which the village is a part.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the town featured a small amusement park near Park Island on Lake Orion.

In 1929, Amelia Earhart visited Lake Orion and flew an experimental glider at Scripps Mansion.

Lake Orion was served by trains on the Michigan Central Railroad and DUR interurban.

The story of the Lake Orion Dragon says that sometime in the 1800s a group of local kids played a prank by building a fake dragon and launching it out in the lake.

A number of people saw it and soon Lake Orion was known for its dragon.

" That same year the Lake Orion ' dragon ' made its entrance into Orion history.

'" The nickname of Lake Orion High School's sports teams ( the Dragons ) is derived from this.

Lake Orion ( less commonly known as " Orion Lake ") is an medium-sized inland lake, with area 482 acres ( 3. 2 km² ).

The lake is located within the Village of Lake Orion and Orion Township.

There are several islands in Lake Orion, some of which feature seasonal and year-round residences.

Sweet's Island is home to the Lake Orion Boat Club, and features a private boathouse and docks.

Lake Orion is served by the Lake Orion Community Schools school district.

* Village of Lake Orion official site

Recent linguistic research suggests that all of Africa's major language groupings south of the Sahara Desert ( except Khoisan, which is not considered a valid genetic grouping anyway ), i. e. the Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger – Congo phyla, originated in prehistoric times in a narrow band between Lake Chad and the Nile Valley.

The Kanem Empire originated in the 9th century AD to the northeast of Lake Chad.

The Cleveland team originated in 1900 as the Lake Shores, when the American League ( AL ) was officially a minor league.

The term Lake Guns originated in the short story " Lake Gun " by James Fenimore Cooper in 1851.

The idea of using this particular raw material originated from Edison's recalling his examination of a few threads from a bamboo fishing pole while relaxing on the shore of Battle Lake in the present-day state of Wyoming, where he and other members of a scientific team had traveled so that they could clearly observe a total eclipse of the sun on July 29, 1878, from the Continental Divide.

The Pueblo's web site names the acquisition of the sacred Blue Lake as the most important event in its history due to the spiritual belief that the Taos natives originated from the lake itself.

The county's name originated from the word calumet, which was a ceremonial pipe used by Native Americans in councils on the east shore of Lake Winnebago.

The area known today as downtown Crystal Lake was first called Dearborn and later, Nunda, from an area in New York where many settlers originated.

The station originated in 1898 on the south break wall of the Pine River Channel, leading into Lake Michigan.

A legend of the Seneca tribe states that they originated in a village Nundawao, near the south end of Canandaigua Lake.

The Town of Lake View was originated as Ford's Mill, and the name was changed to Page's Mill in 1870.

Cloverleaf originated as a stop on the Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway.

The use of dragon boats for racing and dragons are believed by scholars, sinologists and anthropologists-for example George Worcester, authoritative author of ' Junks and Sampans of the Yangtze River ' - to have originated in southern central China more than 2, 500 years ago, in Dongting Lake and along the banks of such iconic rivers as the Chang Jiang, also known as Yangtze ( that is, during the same era when the games of ancient Greece were being established at Olympia ).

The Russian ballet patriarch Fyodor Lopukhov has called Swan Lake a " national ballet " because of its swans, who originate from Russian lyrically romantic sources, while many of the movements of the corps de ballet originated from Slavonic ring-dances.

Glacial ice that filled Mill Creek ( whose canyon is mostly post-glacial ), Blue Lake Canyon, Kings Creek Meadows, Flatiron Ridge, Warner Valley and the valley of Manzanita, Hat and Lost Creeks originated from there.

In May 2007, there was another wildfire that originated around Ham Lake, just to the east of the Cavity Lake fire.

The Turkic peoples originated in " the Far East including North China, especially Xinjiang Province and Inner Mongolia with parts of Mongolia and Siberia possibly as far west as Lake Baikal and the Altai Mountains.

** Birch Narrows First Nation ( located at Turnor Lake, most populous Reserve # 193B about 124 km northeast of Île-à-la-Crosse, the reserve originated from Treaty 6 in 1906, Reserves: Churchill Lake # 193A, Turnor Lake # 193B, # 194, ca.

" Affairs of the Heart " originated in summer 1988 sessions by Lake with Geoff Downes under the project name Ride the Tiger.

The name is believed to have originated with the First Nations living along the northern shores of the lake, who referred to themselves by Chipewyan words meaning “ grizzly bear water people .” Grizzly Bear Mountain on the shore of the Lake comes from the Chipewyan, meaning, literally “ bear large hill .”

In spite of the disaster, Wright completed during this period plans for the Lake Tahoe resort, in which he suggested the shapes of American Indian tepees -- a project of great and appropriate charm, that came to nothing.

While a few settlements on Lake Balaton, including Balatonfüred and Hévíz, have long been resort centres for the Hungarian aristocracy, it was only in the late 19th century that the Hungarian middle class began to visit the lake.

Located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, approximately southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States, the resort covers an area of and includes four theme parks, two water parks, 23 on-site themed resort hotels ( excluding eight more that are on-site, but not owned by the Walt Disney Company ), including a campground, two spas and physical fitness centers, five golf courses, and other recreational venues and entertainment.

They played the summer at Hudson Lake, a resort in northern Indiana, and split the next year between touring, recording, and performing at Detroit's Graystone Ballroom.

* Boreal Mountain Resort, a ski resort in the Lake Tahoe area of California

It is also near the Wisp Resort at Deep Creek Lake, a major ski resort for many Marylanders and other visitors.

Safdie has designed six of Canada's principal public institutions as well as many other notable projects around the world, including the Salt Lake City Main Public Library, the Khalsa Heritage Centre in India, the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort in Singapore, the United States Institute of Peace headquarters in Washington, DC, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.

In the late 1800s, Franklin County was home to three of the largest resort hotels in the Adirondacks, Paul Smith's Hotel, Loon Lake House, and Rainbow Inn.

Tribal development there, such as the recently opened $ 80 million Lake of Isles golf resort, has proven to be a welcome addition to the town's tax base.

** Harrison Hot Springs, resort village in British Columbia, Canada, located on Harrison Lake

A trail at Lake Mountain cross country ski resort, Victoria

Regular ferry service commenced across Lake Pontchartrain, and shortly thereafter another resort community was founded, Abita Springs.

* Spring Lake ( Texas ), a pool formed by San Marcos Springs at a resort named Aquarena Springs, San Marcos, Texas

An ' In principle ' permit has been granted for the establishment of an ' eco-friendly ' resort at Pumphouse Point at Lake St Clair.

As the nearby Lake Mohave developed into a major tourism destination, and as the casino and resort town of Laughlin, Nevada, sprouted up across the river, Bullhead City grew rapidly.

Fairfield Bay, located on the shore of Greers Ferry Lake, is a leading resort destination and is home to Fairfield Bay Resort, the namesake of Wyndham Worldwide-owned Fairfield Resorts.

Surrounded by the San Bernardino National Forest, Big Bear Lake is a year-around resort destination for Southern California.

The move to a winter resort town was solidified in 1952 when Tommy Tyndall opened a resort in Big Bear Lake now known as Snow Summit.

It started as a resort town, based around the once renowned automobile race course at Lindo Lake that Barney Oldfield made famous in 1907.

Emerald Lake Hills was originally conceived as a resort community for city-weary San Franciscans during World War I. Emerald Lake Hills actually consists of two large subdivisions created around 1920: Emerald Lake ( even though there are two lakes ) and Emerald Hills.

Mostly known as an agricultural community, the Crystal Lake section of town was for a while a popular summer resort location.