You searched for Postal Code: 48910
Showing results 1 to 6 of 6
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YSC_michigan-retail-hardware-association_Lansing-MI.html
Side 1With 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 president. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YPE_malcolm-x-homesite_Lansing-MI.html
Side 1Malcolm 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 econo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YOU_grand-trunk-depot_Lansing-MI.html
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. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YN9_reo-motor-car-company-reo-clubhouse_Lansing-MI.html
REO Motor Car CompanyIn 1904 Ransom Eli Olds founded the REO Motor Car Company and built a factory on this site. In 1897 Olds had organized the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, the forerunner of Oldsmobile. REO soon became a leading automobile producer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YGF_mt-hope-cemetery_Lansing-MI.html
Side AMount 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 …
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…