Lyonsville is an

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in Jennings Township, Fayette County,

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History

Lyonsville was originally called Lyons Station. It was renamed Lyonsville in 1916, in order to avoid confusion with

Lyons Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

in Greene County. Abraham Lyons was a pioneer settler in Jennings Township.

References

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