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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YON_eero-saarinen-1910-1961_Lansing-MI.html
Eero Saarinen grew up in Finland and the United States surrounded by art and design. He taught design at Cranbrook Academy of Art and worked in his father's architectural firm. His independent artistic vision was first revealed in the simple, dram…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YOM_herbert-henry-dow-1866-1930_Lansing-MI.html
Chemical pioneer H.H. Dow developed new processes for extracting bromine, chlorine, calcium, magnesium and sodium compounds from Midland's underground deposits of brine (salt water). During World War I, Dow's company replaced Germany as a supplier…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YOL_fannie-richards-1840-1922_Lansing-MI.html
Fannie Richards helped initiate the fight for educational equality that led to a landmark 1869 Michigan Supreme Court decision abolishing segregation in the Detroit public schools. She began her 50-year teaching career as a Detroit teacher in 1865…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YNR_michigan-sheriffs-association_Lansing-MI.html
In December 1877 twenty-four county sheriffs met in Lansing and formed the Michigan State Sheriffs Association—committed to devising ways and means for assisting each other in the detention, arrest and conviction of criminals. In 1893 the gr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YNQ_george-e-palmer-old-newsboys_Lansing-MI.html
George E. PalmerGeorge E. Palmer (1862 - 1944) served Lansing as a truant officer, police officer and superintendent of buildings for the Lansing Public Schools. Beginning in 1900 as a truant officer, Palmer worked with students who were not atten…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YNN_lansings-labor-holiday_Lansing-MI.html
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YNB_ransom-eli-olds-curved-dash-oldsmobile_Lansing-MI.html
Ransom Eli OldsBorn in Geneva, Ohio, Ransom E. Olds came to Lansing in 1880. He worked in his father's machine and repair shop, where he experimented with small steam engines. In 1887, Olds drove for a distance of one block, Lansing's first automo…
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/HM1YM0_capital-bank-tower_Lansing-MI.html
Upon its completion in 1931, the Capital Bank Tower was hailed by newspapers as the tallest building in the state beyond Detroit. Industrialist and Capital Bank president Ranson E. Olds commissioned the three hundred-foot skyscraper, which housed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YLX_lansing-fire-station-no-8_Lansing-MI.html
Lansing architects Bowd-Munson Company designed Fire Station No. 8, which opened in June 1931. The firehall was built by the H. G. Christman Company. Firefighters lived in the upper two floors, and the community used a large room in the basement f…