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historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-6572f_central-united-methodist-church-historical_Lansing-MI.html
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-f12c8_st-pauls-episcopal-church-historical_Lansing-MI.html
Side AIn 1848, soon after the Michigan legislature relocated the state capital to Lansing Township, an Episcopal society met in the new capitol, located at Washington Avenue and Allegan Street. The society which became a parish in 1856, erected it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-f1c27_first-presbyterian-church-historical_Lansing-MI.html
Side AThis 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. There were …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VWF_lansings-first-capitol-building-lansing-becomes-the-capital-city-historical_Lansing-MI.html
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 on the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QYM_town-of-michigan-lansing_Lansing-MI.html
Town of Michigan)
In 1847, required by Michigan's 1835 constitution to choose a permanent capital site within the first decade of statehood, the legislature voted to move the capital from Detroit. Convinced that the governmental seat should be in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LC0_grand-river-trail_Williamston-MI.html
The old Grand River Indian Trail, now US-16, became a plank road in 1848. A toll gate and Red Bridge Post Office were located here. Nearby were homes of John Mullett, pioneer surveyor, and John Forester, explorer, north Michigan mine pioneer. Mich…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LBZ_chief-okemos-okemos-village-marker_Meridian-charter-Township-MI.html
Chief Okemos
Okemos was born in Shiawassee County around 1775. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Sandusky during the War of 1812 and won the respect of the Saginaw Chippewa people. Chief Okemos later signed several treaties on behalf of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L8R_saint-mary-parish_Williamston-MI.html
(Side 1)
Beginning in the 1850s, Williamston Catholics worshipped with visiting priests. They often traveled ten miles by carriage or horseback on rutted, muddy roads to Saint Patrick Church in Woodhull (present-day Shaftsburg) to worship with Fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L6Y_downtown-historic-district_Williamston-MI.html
(Side 1)
Williamston grew where two Native American trails crossed. In 1834, settlers Hiram and Joseph Putnam built the north-south road that became Putnam Street. Construction of the Grand River Turnpike from Detroit to Grand Rapids in 1851 crea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHSC_first-michigan-sharpshooters_Lansing-MI.html
First Michigan Sharpshooters. [There follows a list of the regiment's officers.] The regiment was organized during the winter of 1862 and 1863 at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Disbanded at Jackson, Michigan, August 7th, 1865. The entire enrollment of the r…