Lansing, Michigan, USA
1895 - Lansing

Lansing, a city, the capital of Michigan, is situated in Ingham co., on Grand River, at the mouth of the Cedar River, 85 miles W.N.W. of Detroit, 37 miles N. of Jackson, 208 miles E.N.E. of Chicago, and 72 miles E.S.E. of Grand Rapids. Lat: 42° 45' N.; lon. 84° 32' W. It is on the Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad where it crosses the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railroad and the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Railroad, and is the N. terminus of a branch of the Michigan Southern Railroad, connecting with the main line at Jonesville. Its site was covered with forests when the seat of government was located here in 1847. Lansing contains a beautiful state-house, 15 churches, the state library of 40,000 volumes, 3 state banks, 2 savings-banks, a high school, the state reform school, the Michigan State Agricultural College, an opera-house, and manufactures of flour, lumber, bricks, barrels, artificial stone, sash, doors, blinds, stoves, agricultural implements, wagons, knit-goods, &c. Ten weekly and 2 daily news papers are published here. Lansing was incorporated as a city in 1859. Pop. in 1860, 3074; in 1870, 5241; in 1880, 8319; in 1890, 13,102.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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