Old Orchard (Toledo, Ohio)

Bowen Co. (one of the founders of the present day Welles-Bowen Realty Company) who is credited with selecting the Old Orchard name.

One potential explanation is that Mr. Bowen had also developed the Westmoreland neighborhood (about 1 mile east of Old Orchard) around 1917 and selected those street names from areas in Virginia (Mount Vernon, Richmond, Potomac), as the rolling terrain reminded him of that part of the country.

Streets in Old Orchard are platted in a simple grid pattern with several ending with a small triangular grassy island at the terminus.

Street names in Old Orchard include Aldringham, Cheltenham, Goddard, Drummond, Meadowwood, Barrington, Middlesex, Pemberton, Densmore, Markway, Hughes, Christie, Kenwood, Hopewell, Darlington, Pelham and Brantford.

One of Old Orchard's more famous residents was Millie Benson (1905 - 2002) who was one of the original ghost writers of the Nancy Drew Mystery books penned under the name Carolyn Keene.