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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YED_north-presbyterian-church_Lansing-MI.html
Side AOn 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 Me…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YEC_turner-dodge-house_Lansing-MI.html
Side A James Turner, a Lansing pioneer, originally owned this property. A native of New York, Turner came to Lansing in 1847 from nearby Mason, where he was a merchant. He immediately opened a general store in the Seymour House, the first hotel i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YEB_church-of-the-resurrection-monsignor-john-a-gabriels_Lansing-MI.html
Side AChurch 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 E…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YEA_carnegie-library_Lansing-MI.html
Side AAndrew 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 arc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YE9_woodbury-kerns-house_Lansing-MI.html
Darius B. Moon, prominent turn-of-the century Lansing architect, designed this Queen Anne house in 1896 for Chester E. Woodbury, founder of the Lansing Capitol Savings and Loan Association. The structure's last residential owner was William G. K…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YCT_michigan-school-for-the-blind-administration-building_Lansing-MI.html
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 year, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YCR_trinity-a-m-e-church_Lansing-MI.html
Side 1 Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church of Lansing is the oldest black church in the city. Its first services were held in a building on North Washington Avenue. The church formally organized by the Reverend Mr. Henderson of the British…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y15_chief-okemos-historical_Meridian-charter-Township-MI.html
Erected to the memory of Chief Okemos of the Chippewas whose tribe once occupied the ground upon which this school now stands. * Brave in battle * Wise in council * * Honorable in peace * After his people became ravaged by disease and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y09_masonic-temple-historical_East-Lansing-MI.html
Local Masons organized in 1915 and promptly hired Lansing architect, Samuel D. Butterworth, a fellow Mason, to design a meeting hall. Butterworth rejected the practice of designing Masonic halls as elaborate classical temples, and instead blended …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y06_michigan-state-medical-society-michigan-state-medical-society-headquarters-historical_East-Lansing-MI.html
Michigan State Medical Society In 1819 five physicians organized the Michigan Medical Society in Detroit. Its purpose was "to examine medical students and certify those so deemed as doctors." The group reorganized in Ann Arbor as the Peninsula Me…
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