- source: Family History Library Catalog
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The area we now know as Orchard Park Township was originally part of the Township of Hamburgh; the area we know as the environs of the Four Corners of Orchard Park Village became known at an early day as Potter's Corners due to the homesteading of the prolific Quaker Potter family. A decision was made in 1850 to separate Hamburgh's east half from its west half, the new eastern Township to be named Ellicott. This designation lasted for a little more than a year, and was then changed to East Hamburgh. The name Potter's Corners gradually was replaced by Orchard Park, informally, about 1882 when it was noted that the community resembled a park of orchards. The community had been known as Orchard Park for many years before it officially was incorporated into a village in 1921. Finally, the entire township of East Hamburg became known as Orchard Park Township in 1934, the final “h” of Hamburgh having been lost about the time of World War I.
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