This tree is dedicated to the original inhabitants of this land: the Anishinaabeg - Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples.
Lansing Community College is committed to Indigenous rights and cultural equity. — — Map (db m256756) HM
This tree is dedicated to the original inhabitants of this land: the Anishinaabeg - Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples. Lansing Community College is committed to Indigenous rights and cultural equity. — — Map (db m256759) HM
He gave the best years of his life to Michigan, and his fame is inseparably linked with the glorious achievements of her citizen soldiers. — — Map (db m103326) HM WM
This gun replicates one of six making Battery A 1st Michigan light Artillery and known as the famous Loomis Battery. The battery did service in the War of the Rebellion from early 1861 to 1865 and was engaged in action at Elkwater and Greenbriar, . . . — — Map (db m169818) HM
Upon its completion in 1931, the Capital Bank Tower was hailed by newspapers as the tallest building in the state beyond Detroit. Industrialist and Capital Bank president Ranson E. Olds commissioned the three hundred-foot skyscraper, which housed . . . — — Map (db m103624) HM
Andrew Carnegie credited libraries with opening the "treasures of knowledge and imagination through which youth may ascend." This belief led him to provide funding for more than 1,600 libraries across the United States. Designed by local architect . . . — — Map (db m103324) HM
The first recorded Methodist meeting in Lansing was held in 1845 when the Reverend Lewis Coburn preached in the log cabin of Joab Page of North Lansing. In 1850 a Methodist class (congregation) was formed in what is now central Lansing. Its first . . . — — Map (db m103630) HM
Built 1894 - From 1873 to 1894 The 3rd Ward School was held on this site. Since 1958 the building has been occupied by Manson, Jackson & Kane, Inc. — — Map (db m210813) HM
Church of the Resurrection On June 15 1922, the Most Reverend Michael J. Gallagher, bishop of Detroit, sent Father John A. Gabriels to Lansing to establish a Catholic parish east of the Pere Marquette railroad tracks that would include East . . . — — Map (db m103656) HM
Commemorating a 28,000 mile continent circling canoe voyage by two Lansing adventurers, Verlen Kruger and Steve Landick. They completed their world record odyssey in three-and-one-half years landing at this site on the Grand River December 15, 1983. . . . — — Map (db m256746) HM
Cooley Gardens was established in 1938 when Eugene. F. Cooley gave the land to the City of Lansing for a park. The family home was demolished and the pavilion was built on that part of the site.
Landscape architect Edward H. Laird of . . . — — Map (db m255568) HM
Dr. Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980) and Dr. Grace Eldering (1900-1988)
In 1932 a severe outbreak of whooping cough struck Grand Rapids. Pearl Kendrick, director of the Michigan Department of Health laboratory there and her colleague Grace . . . — — Map (db m281065) HM
Durant Park
William C. Durant was one of Michigan's most important industrialists and the founder of the General Motors Corporation. In 1919 Durant purchased this three-acre city block, once the estate of Mortimer Cowles, an Eaton Rapids . . . — — Map (db m182339) HM
Known as the “Mother” of Michigan State Parks system. Genevieve Gillette is remembered as one of the state’s most effective conservation lobbyists. In 1920, she was the only woman in the first landscape architecture class to graduate . . . — — Map (db m103684) HM
Eero Saarinen grew up in Finland and the United States surrounded by art and design. He taught design at Cranbrook Academy of Art and worked in his father’s architectural firm. His independent artistic vision was first revealed in the simple, . . . — — Map (db m103982) HM
Born in Canada to parents who had once been enslaved in Kentucky, Elijah McCoy studied engineering in Scotland. He settled in Ypsilanti after the Civil War, intending to work as a mechanical engineer. Although discrimination limited him to the . . . — — Map (db m103724) HM
Ernie Harwell is the only member of the American sports media in the Guinness Book of Records. Where he is named baseball’s most enduring announcer. Harwell, the only announcer to broadcast over a span of seven decades, became the first active . . . — — Map (db m103718) HM
To those who served their country well and those who died that our ideals of freedom should not be forever lost. This memorial is sincerely and humbly dedicated
By the grace of Almighty God may all who pass this way hold sacred in their . . . — — Map (db m214355) WM
Fannie Richards helped initiate the fight for educational equality that led to a landmark 1869 Michigan Supreme Court decision abolishing segregation in the Detroit public schools. She began her 50-year teaching career as a Detroit teacher in . . . — — Map (db m103984) HM
Frederick Schmid, pioneer Lutheran
pastor, held the first service in 1853.
Two years later "The First Evangelical
Lutheran Church of Lansing" organized.
It has met on this block ever since.
The present church was built in 1915. — — Map (db m214727) HM
The site of the first house erected in the city of Lansing in the year 1848, by John W. Burchard was located one block south and one-half block west of this point. — — Map (db m239726) HM
Field and Staff
Colonel • Charles V. Deland
Lieut. Colonels • Wm. H. H. Beadle • Asahel W. Nichols
Majors • John Piper • Lavant C. Rhines • Julian E. Buckbee
Surgeon • Arvin F. Whealan
Asst. Surgeons • Geo. L. Cornell • Thos. . . . — — Map (db m248817) HM WM
Near this site in 1886, Ransom Eli Olds designed, built, and first drove a steam powered horseless carriage. In 1803, he brought out his first automobile using gasoline engine power. In 1897, he organized the Olds Motor Vehicle company and produced . . . — — Map (db m104356) HM
Side A This church, Lansing's first congregation to affiliate nationally (with the Marshall Presbytery), was founded on December 17, 1847. It was organized by the Reverend Calvin Clark, an agent for the American Home Missionary Society. . . . — — Map (db m103502) HM
Rendezvoused at Camp Owen, Marshall, Michigan Mustered October 29, 1861 Regimental Organization twelve companies 150 men each Total enrollment during war 2920 men Served in The Army of the Ohio, Army of the Cumberland, Army of the Tennessee Engaged . . . — — Map (db m248818) WM
Former home of Union officer Colonel
Frederick Schneider, a prisoner at Andersonnville. House built in 1854. Property
used as first Weather Bureau station
site in Lansing. — — Map (db m214743) HM
To commemorate the valor and patriotism of the men of the nation who served in the War with Spain, the Philippine Insurrection and the China Relief Expedition 1898 - 1902.This monument erected through the efforts of the various camps and auxiliaries . . . — — Map (db m99954) WM
George E. Palmer George E. Palmer (1862 - 1944) served Lansing as a truant officer, police officer and superintendent of buildings for the Lansing Public Schools. Beginning in 1900 as a truant officer, Palmer worked with students who were not . . . — — Map (db m103930) HM
Known as Mr. Hockey, Gordie Howe scored his first professional goal in his 1946 National Hockey League debut. Howe established the most records by any athlete in any sport, including 2,589 career points, 1,071 goals and 29 all-star appearances. He . . . — — Map (db m103981) HM
THIS MEMORIAL was erected in memory of and dedicated to the Grand Army of the Republic by the Department of Michigan Women's Relief Corps. Jun 11, 1924. "Ever in the realms of glory shall shine your starry fame. Angels have heard your story. God . . . — — Map (db m104515) WM
The Grand River and its valley were formed by the melting of the continental glacier that retreated from this area some 12,000 years ago. Known by Chippewa Indians as Washtanong (further country) and by the French as le Riviere Grand, the Grand is . . . — — Map (db m104018) HM
Constructed in 1902, this castle-like building with its square tower was the Lansing station for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad until 1971. For decades passengers streamed through its doors. Here servicemen left and returned from military duty. . . . — — Map (db m104014) HM
Purchasing one hundred sixty acres of farmland from the government, Elihu Gunnison, first settled this site, originally known as Gunnison, in 1835. This settlement, which its inhabitants often called “four corners,” had a general store owned and . . . — — Map (db m196655) HM
Considered “The First Lady of the Press,” former White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas is a trailblazer who broke through barriers for women reporters. Thomas worked for United Press International for more than 55 years covering every president . . . — — Map (db m104168) HM
Henry Ford transformed America by creating “a motor car for the great multitude.” Always interested in tinkering with machinery than in working on his parents’ Dearborn farm. Ford gravitated toward the young auto industry in the 1890’s. . . . — — Map (db m104169) HM
Chemical pioneer H.H. Dow developed new processes for extracting bromine, chlorine, calcium, magnesium and sodium compounds from Midland’s underground deposits of brine (salt water). During World War I, Dow’s company replaced Germany as a supplier . . . — — Map (db m214923) HM
The REO Family
Talk to someone who worked for the REO Motor Car Company, and there's a good chance they will mention the sense of family and a place and time where the line worker and senior management alike were living their lives together . . . — — Map (db m255564) HM
The Scott Mansion
The stately home (pictured right), that once stood on this site was originally built by James R. Elliot in 1905. In 1907, Richard Scott (former president of REO Motor Car Company) purchased the home along with the adjacent . . . — — Map (db m255576) HM
1897
Olds Motor Vehicle Company forms, Michigan's first operating motor vehicle company.
1899
Investors move Olds Motor Vehicle Company to a new factory in Detroit, which they name Olds Motor Works, although engine production . . . — — Map (db m255572) HM
To commemorate the names of those
from this school who gave their
lives in the Great World War
ending November 11th 1918
H.D. Bailey '14 • Crawford Bonnell '13 • Gordon Cooper '13 • Frank Esselstyn '14 • Robert Halstead '13 • Raymond . . . — — Map (db m256970) WM
In memory of
the men from Ingham County
who made the supreme sacrifice
in the World War
that liberty shall not perish
from the earth.
Lansing
Lt. Morley S. Oates • Lt. J. Howard Redner • Lt. H. J. Sheldon • Ensign R. H. Halstead . . . — — Map (db m256969) WM
The Hotel Olds, named for its builder and auto magnate R.E. Olds, was sold and renamed several times over the years until the building was bought by the State of Michigan in 1997. Today, the building is named in honor of George Romney, the . . . — — Map (db m255581) HM
The road, cutting across downtown Lansing, was given the name "Olds Freeway' in honor of Ransom E. Olds. The new freeway reflected a national trend as workers moved out of the cities to suburban homes. I-496 spurred growth in the suburbs, but . . . — — Map (db m104215) HM
This Japanese Maple tree was planted to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Japan Adventure Program and to celebrate the spirit of international education and global friendship between Biwako Kisen Steamship Company, Ltd. and Lansing Community . . . — — Map (db m256758) HM
Daniel’s career took off when he won a 1982 OBIE Award for his performance in the one-man Off-Broadway play “Johnny Got His Gun,” Known for his varied movie roles, he is also a director, playwright and entrepreneur.
Remaining Michigan based, in . . . — — Map (db m103720) HM
Joe Louis learned to box as a teenager at Detroit’s Brewster Recreation Center. With power in both hands and great strength, Louis quickly rose through the amateur ranks and turned pro in 1934. He won the world heavyweight title in 1937 at the . . . — — Map (db m274867) HM
This English Tudor house was built in 1893 for John T. Herrmann, a Lansing tailor. Herrmann immigrated to Lansing from Bernsberg, Germany in 1872 with his wife, Katharine, and two children Henry and Christian, In 1878 John Herrmann opened the . . . — — Map (db m103355) HM
Jonas Salk developed the first successful polio vaccine. Poliomyelitis, also known as infantile paralysis, was a feared disease that could cause paralysis or death.
Salk began his career at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, . . . — — Map (db m214595) HM
Known to the circus world as Joel Warner and
Lansing's foremost entertainer. As a magician
he traveled the Mississippi River in 1851 as
the "Wizard of the North. His circus career
included: assistant agent for Whitbeck & Co.'s
Original One . . . — — Map (db m214745) HM
The building was designed by Darius
Moon, Lansing architect. It was built in
1895. Through the years it has served as a
residence for three well-known Lansing
families (Wm. Brown, Lawrence Price and
Bernard Lavey). — — Map (db m214729) HM
Kerns Hotel Fire
At 5:30 A.M. on December 11, 1934, the alarm outside the Kerns Hotel sounded. The 211-room four-story brick hotel that stood on this site had 215 registered guests. Before the last embers of the fire were extinguished, . . . — — Map (db m104407) HM
Lansing Community College was established on April 8, 1957, by the Lansing Public Schools. It opened that fall with 425 students and sixteen faculty members. It offered civil mechanical and electronics technologies as well as practical nursing and . . . — — Map (db m103351) HM
Lansing architects Bowd-Munson Company designed Fire Station No. 8, which opened in June 1931. The firehall was built by the H. G. Christman Company. Firefighters lived in the upper two floors, and the community used a large room in the basement for . . . — — Map (db m103325) HM
As the labor movement spread across Michigan in the 1930s, workers in Lansing organized. After a successful strike at REO Motor Car Company ended in April 1937, the Amalgamated United Auto Workers Local 182 began recruiting new members from small . . . — — Map (db m104288) HM
Lansing's First Capitol Building. Early in 1847, three commissioners were appointed to select an appropriate site for the capitol in Lansing. The contract for construction was awarded on June 3, 1847. Building materials were shipped by boat . . . — — Map (db m99950) HM
Following Flint's example, Lansing Amalgamated United Auto Workers Local 182 concluded a successful sit-down strike at Reo in April 1937. A subsequent effort to organize Capital City Wrecking Company resulted in the firing of workers, picket lines . . . — — Map (db m104154) HM
In 1890, the Lansing Women's Club completed construction of its club home, a two-story red brick building located at 118 West Ottawa Street in downtown Lansing, In the same year, the Michigan Millers Insurance Company constructed next door at 120 . . . — — Map (db m255580) HM
Little Family Homesite. On this site, in 1930, Earl and Louise Little built the house that was home to Malcolm X and his siblings: Wilfred, Hilda, Philbert, Reginald, Yvonne, Wesley, and Robert. Malcolm was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925. . . . — — Map (db m214849) HM
This gun replicates one of six making battery A 1st Michigan Light Artillery and known as the famous Loomis Battery. The battery did service in the War of the Rebellion from early 1861 to 1865, and was engaged in action at Elkwater and Green Briar, . . . — — Map (db m255583) HM
Lou Adado served as an elected city council member for nearly 19 years. In his first term he represented the third ward after being a leader in the 1960's annexation effort that added the area south of Jolly Road to the city. He later served as a . . . — — Map (db m256750) HM
Educated first in Odawa (Ottawa) skills and traditions, Andrew J. Blackbird struggled to find the resources to Euro-American schools. He eventually studied at Ypsilanti State Normal School. His command of English enabled him to work as an . . . — — Map (db m103710) HM
Malcom Little (1925-1965) was an African-American Muslim minister and civil rights activist who spent his early years in Lansing and Mason, Michigan.
His father was killed in Lansing and his mother later institutionalized, leaving Malcolm Little . . . — — Map (db m239761) HM
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925, lived on this site in the 1930's. His early life was marked by the violent death of his father, the Reverend Earl Little, on the Michigan Avenue streetcar tracks. Under severe economic . . . — — Map (db m104016) HM
When Mary Spencer became state librarian in 1893, she immediately unlocked the library's bookcases, giving users free access to their contents. recognizing that "the trend of library work at the present time is democratic," she worked for thirty . . . — — Map (db m281062) HM
This memorial presented to the State of Michigan by Michigan's veterans organizations and auxiliaries is one of the first multi-conflict memorials erected in the United States to memorialize the service and sacrifices of a states servicemen and . . . — — Map (db m248819) WM
Michigan Education Association Building. When completed in 1928, this building marked the Michigan Education Association's seventy-fifth anniversary. The Lansing architectural firm of Warren Holmes-Powers Company designed the Neo-Georgian . . . — — Map (db m263695) HM
Side A Since its 1902 founding, the Michigan Manufacturers association has dealt with many important business issues. Beginning in 1908, the MMA organized employers to establish a system for compensating injured workers. In 1912, based on a . . . — — Map (db m103660) HM
Founded in 1881 by flour mill owners from ten mid-Michigan communities, the Michigan Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Company was among the first millers’ cooperative fire insurance companies in America. Its first policy was issued to company . . . — — Map (db m214718) HM
Michigan National Guard Armory Built in 1924, the Lansing Armory in one of five Michigan National Guard Armories designed by state architect Lynn M. Fry. The front block contained military office; the large hall in the rear had room for unit . . . — — Map (db m103356) HM
On November 14,1883, seventy-seven druggists met in the State Capitol to organize the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association. Jacob Jesson of Muskegon led the effort to establish a professional association to participate in national professional . . . — — Map (db m103350) HM
Side 1 With the philosophy, "in union there is strength", twenty Michigan hardware retailers convened in Detroit on July 9, 1895, and organized the Michigan Retail Hardware Association. Frank S. Carlton of Calumet was elected the first . . . — — Map (db m103926) HM
Michigan School for the Blind
Michigan began educating the blind in 1859 at Flint's Michigan Asylum. In 1879 the legislature established the Michigan School for the Blind, which opened here on September 29, 1880, with 35 students. The next . . . — — Map (db m103504) HM
In December 1877 twenty-four county sheriffs met in Lansing and formed the Michigan State Sheriffs Association--committed to devising ways and means for assisting each other in the detention, arrest and conviction of criminals. In 1893 the group . . . — — Map (db m103927) HM
In 1871 Governor Henry P. Baldwin challenged Michigan's legislature to build a fireproof capitol to house the state;s governmental offices, records, and civil war relics. Modeled after the United States Capitol, it is one of the first post-Civil . . . — — Map (db m182187) HM
Michigan State Capitol. Hailed by Michigan citizens as a proud symbol of their young and growing state, this building was dedicated on January 1, 1879. National publications praised its scandal-free construction which took six years, and its . . . — — Map (db m280008) HM
In 1945 attorney Samuel Charfoos founded a workers´ compensation association in Detroit, "filling a vacuum" for injured workers´ legal representation in the State of Michigan. It became the first chapter of the National Association of Claimants´ . . . — — Map (db m215371) HM
Moores Park Pool
Dedicated 1922 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places
by the United States Department of the Interior
Rededicated 1998 — — Map (db m214357) HM
This Late Victorian house, designed by Darius B. Moon was built by Morgan B. Hungerford in 1880. Hungerford (1830-1903) had arrived in the area in 1858. He farmed a large tract of land in what is now west Lansing and served one term as justice of . . . — — Map (db m103352) HM
Mount Hope Cemetery opened as Lansing's new city cemetery in June 1874 on what was formerly the John Miller Farm. Between 1874 and 1881 the city vacated the Lansing City Cemetery, located on the site of what would become Oak Park, and moved . . . — — Map (db m214334) HM
"Concretely of the present, it idealizes the past and heralds the future." This phrase used by the Michigan Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Company to describe its new office building upon construction in 1928 became true once again when . . . — — Map (db m256742) HM
Danny Thomas’s first audiences on Detroit radio knew him as Amos Jacobs, the anglicized form of his Lebanese birth name. His CBS radio show in the late 1940s made him nationally known, but he is best known as a television producer and star, and . . . — — Map (db m103978) HM
In 1600, Sir Isaac Newton theorized that a prism separates white light in the electromagnetic spectrum into colors that are visible to the human eye. These extraordinary colors come together in linear dissections of various shapes and sizes to . . . — — Map (db m256760) HM
The North Lansing Brenke Fish Ladder, is the sixth in a series of fish ladders on the Grand River to allow trout and salmon to migrate 184 miles from Lake Michigan to the South Lansing (Moores Park) Dam. It is part of a cooperative fish management . . . — — Map (db m214627) HM
The old church was replaced
with the present structure
in 1916. The current name,
North Presbyterian Church,
was assumed in 1934. — — Map (db m214725) HM
On October 19, 1863, fourteen members of Lansing’s First Presbyterian Church signed the Articles of Association creating the Franklin Street Church Society. The society acquired a lot for a church from James Turner, a merchant and leading . . . — — Map (db m214726) HM
The Olds Freeway, also known as Interstate 496 or 1-496, is an 11.9 mile stretch of freeway under the jurisdiction of the Michigan Department of Transportation. The freeway runs east and west through the center of Lansing. An average of 70,000 . . . — — Map (db m255566) HM
After fire destroyed the new Olds Motor Works plant in Detroit on March 9, 1901, the Lansing Business Men's Association offered Olds land originally acquired in hopes of permanently hosting the State Fair. He took it. His new plant produced only the . . . — — Map (db m104114) HM
The state's professional optometry association was founded as the Michigan Optical Society in Muskegon in 1896. Benson W. Hardy, Jay W. Gould, Ernst Elmer, Nelson K. Standart, Emil H. Arnold were its first directors. In 1904 the group was . . . — — Map (db m214720) HM
Side 1
Philip Orin Parmelee, noted early aviator, lived a tragically brief but venturesome life. Born in 1887 in Matherton, Michigan, Parmelee grew up in nearby St. Johns, Clinton County, where he developed a keen interest in . . . — — Map (db m233545) HM
Congregational churches originated with the Puritan and Separatist churches of New England. Soon after “Michigan” (present-day Lansing) was chosen as the site of the state capital in 1847, the Reverend S. S. Brown, a Congregationalist with the . . . — — Map (db m195625) HM
This memorial is erected
to honor the service men
and women who have perished
fighting for our nation
since September 11, 2001
Gone but never forgotten!
United States Army
United States Marine Corp
United States Navy
United . . . — — Map (db m214356) WM
The Pulver Brothers
As demand for oil and automobiles increased in the early 1920s, brothers Benjamin A. (1875-1960) and Elmer E. (1880-1965) Pulver formed the Pulver Oil Company to distribute Sinclair Oil products. In 1923 they built this . . . — — Map (db m214714) HM
This horse drawn steam engine was purchased in 1895 by Traverse City, Michigan. A city whose slogan was "Queen City of the North".
It was the city's first steam pumper and was called out possibly 4000 times before being replaced by a gasoline . . . — — Map (db m215912) HM
A Brief History
Ransom Eli Olds was born in Geneva, Ohio in 1864 on the family farm. At an early age he decided that life would be better without horses. He began tinkering with engines in his spare time while working at the P.F. Olds & Son . . . — — Map (db m239762) HM
Ransom Eli Olds Born in Geneva, Ohio, Ransom E. Olds came to Lansing in 1880. He worked in his father's machine and repair shop, where he experimented with small steam engines. In 1887, Olds drove for a distance of one block, Lansing's first . . . — — Map (db m103920) HM
P.F. Olds founded a prosperous machine shop here on River Street, repairing and building steam and gasoline engines. His was one of many Lansing Manufacturing plants that produced small engines, carriages, windmills and other equipment used by . . . — — Map (db m104130) HM
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