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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berrien_Springs,_Michigan 
This is all history. That location was where the team was first "incorporated" if you will. At least that's what FIRST recorded. Looking through the records I sometimes suspect the original sponsor, teacher or administrator entered their personal home town. That's the case for at least one early Long Island team.
I added your team chronology.
I'm not removing teams though. This is a list of all team numbers that ever existed.
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Well then, that makes absolutely no sense as to why it was incorporated in Berrien Springs. Farmington Hills is a suburb of Detroit - about 170 miles from Berrien Springs.
As one of the founding mentors of 139/162/308, I don't even know of anyone on the team that had any association to that area. TRW back then was headquartered in Cleveland, the sponsoring division of TRW was in Farmington Hills, and the school was in Farmington Hills. The person that registered the team with FIRST was originally from Calumet, MI, which is probably 350 miles from Berrien Springs. I really have no idea how that could have been registered with FIRST that way.