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For a small and apparently dull suburb, Lawndale boasts its own corporate park, the upper-class prep school [[Fielding]] and a country club, and [[Lawndale State University|its own university]].
Lawndale dates back to colonial times: a newspaper article seen briefly in "[[See Jane Run]]" mentions roadworks on North Avenue found that "the street lies over a pre-revolutionary Dutch Orthodox cemetery" (presumably meaning Dutch followers of an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Orthodox_Churches orthodox church], not the name of the sect).
The not-known-for sure city of which Lawndale is a suburb is only actually seen once in the series. Lawndale lacks tall buildings, but in [[Is It College Yet?]] when Mack goes to visit [[Andrew Landon|Jodie's father]], there are tall buildings seen out of the very high window of Mr. Landon's office. This location must be close to Lawndale because Mack came by to visit him before school. ▼
==Location==
The location of Lawndale is endlessly debated, and even [[Glenn Eichler]] wouldn't commit to an answer beyond the mid-Atlantic states:
<blockquote style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">I thought the Morgendorffers lived in a mid-Atlantic suburb, outside somewhere like Baltimore. They could have lived in Pennsylvania near the Main Line, though.<br/><br/><i>(Source: [http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glenninterviewsfull.html Interview at DVDaria.info])</i></blockquote>
Clues in canon are:
[[Image:Governorsayscrap.jpg|thumb|right|The guv'nor.]]
* The "See Jane Run" article calls the Dutch "settlers", which implies Dutch colonists. That would place Lawndale in the ex-New Netherland states of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland Delaware, Connecticut, or Pennsylvania]. Alternatively,
* Lawndale is within reasonable driving distance of the coast (the Sloane's have a summer home there), somewhere with southern accents ("[[I Don't]]"
▲Lawndale dates back to colonial times: a newspaper article seen briefly in "[[See Jane Run]]" mentions roadworks on North Avenue found that "the street lies over a pre-revolutionary Dutch Orthodox cemetery" (presumably meaning Dutch followers of an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Orthodox_Churches orthodox church], not the name of the sect). Depending on your view of Lawndale's state, that means it was either a Dutch colony or had a Dutch migrant community. (Maryland's Cecil County had Dutch North American holdings)
* Lawndale's a few hours drive away from Boston. ("[[Is It College Yet?]]")
▲Lawndale is within reasonable driving distance of the coast (the Sloane's have a summer home there), somewhere with southern accents ("[[I Don't]]"; in the same interview, Eichler indicated this was Virginia), a rural desert with "cowboy" accents ("[[Speedtrapped]]"), and [[Camp Grizzly]].
* Daria went to [[Camp Grizzly]] when she was a child in [[Highland]], and it was a few hours away when she was in Lawndale. Highland is canonically in Texas, a long way away from the mid-Atlantic. Yeah, there's no solving ''that'' one.
▲The not-known-for sure city of which Lawndale is a suburb is only actually seen once in the series. Lawndale lacks tall buildings, but in [[Is It College Yet?]] when Mack goes to visit [[Andrew Landon|Jodie's father]], there are tall buildings seen out of the very high window of Mr. Landon's office. This location must be close to Lawndale because Mack came by to visit him before school.
Even the county in which Lawndale resides is conflicted in [[canon]], with the MTV websites puttig it in Carter County and "[[One J at a Time]]" putting it in Lawndale County. For more on the Carter County/Lawndale County debate, see [[Off-Canon Canon#Carter County vs. Lawndale County|Off-Canon Canon]].
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