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Orange Park is a town in Clay County, Florida, United States.It is a suburb of Jacksonville, in neighboring Duval County.The population was 9,089 at the 2020 census. The name "Orange Park" is additionally applied to a wider area of northern Clay County outside the town limits, covering such communities as Lakeside, Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace and Oakleaf Plantation.
Orange Park is a town in Clay County, Florida, United States. It is a suburb of Jacksonville, in neighboring Duval County. The population was 9,089 at the 2020 census. The name "Orange Park" is additionally applied to a wider area of northern Clay County outside the town limits, covering such communities as Lakeside, Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace and Oakleaf Plantation.
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Feb 19, 2019 · Orange Park reached its peak – at least population-wise – in the ‘90s, climbing up over 9,000 residents and constructing a new town hall. It has since experienced a regression, backing down below its 1980 population by 2010. Today, Orange Park is still a modestly-sized town, but much of the surrounding unincorporated area has come to be ...
Moosehaven, "City of Contentment," was a retirement community created and operated by the Loyal Order of Moose, a fraternal society created in 1888 in Indiana. It was located at 1700 River Road in Orange Park. In 1922, the order purchased 22 acres to create an elderly home for its retired members (many of which were living at Mooseheart ...
Brief History of the Town of Orange Park. The Town of Orange Park was founded in 1877 by the Florida Winter Home and Improvement Company, with owners and trustees predominantly from Boston, Massachusetts. As a direct result of hard times following the Civil War, the old “McIntosh” plantation at Laurel Grove was in shambles and changed hands ...
Orange Park was founded, after formerly being known as Laurel Grove, in 1877 for a housing development. It was incorporated two years later and was visited by former president and Union general Ulysses S. Grant in 1880. The settlement's early days were, as its name implies, in the orange-growing industry with which Florida is traditionally ...
