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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z2D_grand-army-of-the-republic-a-war-memorial_Lansing-MI.html
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 kn…
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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…
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Side AAs 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 …
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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, thirty-two…
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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 produce…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YVI_e-genevieve-gillette-1898-1986_Lansing-MI.html
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 fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YU0_i-496-olds-freeway_Lansing-MI.html
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 clai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YTO_helen-thomas-b-1920_Lansing-MI.html
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 pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YTN_henry-ford-1863-1947_Lansing-MI.html
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.T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YTM_rosa-parks-1913-2005_Lansing-MI.html
Rosa Parks became an icon of the modern Civil Rights movement for refusing to give up her Montgomery, Alabama, bus seat to a white passenger in December 1955. That defiant act fueled the movement that ended legal segregation in America.Because her…