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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…
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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, …
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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/HM1VXD_michigan-state-capitol-historical_Lansing-MI.html
In 1871 Governor Henry P. Baldwin challenged Michigan's legislature to build a fireproof capitol to house the state;s governmental offices, recdords, and civil war relics. Modeled after the United States Capitol, it is one of thje first post-civil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VXC_austin-blair-historical_Lansing-MI.html
He gave the best years of his life to Michigan, and his fame is inseparably linked with the glorious achievements of her citizen soldiers.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VXB_michigan-a-war-memorial_Lansing-MI.html
This memorial presented to the State of Michigan by Michigan's veterans organizations and auxiliaries is one of the first multi-conflict memorials erected in the United States to memorialize the service and sacrifices of a states servicemen and se…