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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YIH_ernie-harwell-b-1918_Lansing-MI.html
Ernie Harwell is the only member of the American sports media in the Guinness Book of Records. Where he is named baseball's most enduring announcer. Harwell, the only announcer to broadcast over a span of seven decades, became the first active bro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-eada6_joe-louis-barrow-1914-1981_Lansing-MI.html
Joe Louis learned to box as a teenager at Detroit's Brewster Recreation Center. With power in both hands and great strength, Louis quickly rose through the amateur ranks and turned pro in 1934. He won the world heavyweight title in 1937 at the age…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YH6_union-depot_Lansing-MI.html
The Union Depot began passenger service for the Michigan Central and Pere Marquette Railroads in 1902. The Detroit architectural firm of Spier and Rohns, which planned many Michigan Central stations, designed the building with Chateauesque conical…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YGK_central-united-methodist-church_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/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/HM1YGE_rogers-carrier-house_Lansing-MI.html
Lansing architect Darius B. Moon built this Queen Anne style house in 1891 for realtor H. M. Rogers. Purchased by Lansing merchant M. R. Carrier in 1905, the house was occupied by the Carrier family until 1964. In 1966, Lansing Community College b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YEH_first-presbyterian-church_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/HM1YEG_john-t-herrmann-house_Lansing-MI.html
This English Tudor house was built in 1893 for John T. Herrmann, a Lansing tailor. Herrmann immigrated to Lansing from Bernsberg, Germany in 1872 with his wife, Katharine, and two children Henry and Christian, In 1878 John Herrmann opened the Herr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YEF_morgan-b-hungerford-house_Lansing-MI.html
This Late Victorian house, designed by Darius B. Moon was built by Morgan B. Hungerford in 1880. Hungerford (1830-1903) had arrived in the area in 1858. He farmed a large tract of land in what is now west Lansing and served one term as justice of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YEE_lansing-community-college_Lansing-MI.html
Lansing Community College was established on April 8, 1957, by the Lansing Public Schools. It opened that fall with 425 students and sixteen faculty members. It offered civil mechanical and electronics technologies as well as practical nursing and…
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