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The first settler in North Lansing, later known as Lower Town and now Old Town, was John W. Burchard, an attorney from Mason. He built the first log cabin in Lansing in 1843 on land purchased from James Seymour. He built a dam across the Grand River later that year and hoped to build a mill, but drowned at the dam in 1844 while inspecting a ...
LANSING — Ena Busby was just a little girl when her father purchased his first rundown building in Old Town. Robert Busby, an artist who bought and rehabbed five buildings within the historic ...
Henry North proposed the name "Lansing" for the township at the request of his father, who wanted it named after their old town of Lansing, New York. [ 15 ] On February 15, 1859, the settlement, having grown to nearly 3,000 and encompassing about seven square miles (18 km 2 ) in area, was incorporated as a city, carving off a section of seven ...
Lansing is, correctly, a small town — a big small town is the best way to describe it. ... Lansing's Old Town is busy with shoppers on Small Business Saturday where they can find unique items ...
The area that would become downtown was part of the original plat of Lansing. When the city was chosen as the capital of Michigan in 1847, this area – known as Middle Town – was chosen as the site of the state capitol building, but the city's primary and older business district of Old Town – then known as Lower Town – would remain the dominant business district for another decade or so ...
Sir Pizza in Old Town Lansing co owner Danelle Admire, 38, is an undecided voter for the 2024 election. Admire sits for a portrait on Monday, March 25, 2024.
The Old Town BluesFest is a free music festival that takes place each year in the early autumn in Lansing, Michigan.It showcases nationally, regionally, and locally known blues artists such as W. C. Clark, Graná Louise, Byther Smith, Eddie Shaw and the Wolf Gang, A.C. Reed, Jan James, and Lady Sunshine and the X Band, Calvin Cooke and Sacred Steel Ensemble, Mojo Phoenix, Those Delta Rhythm ...
Old Town Commercial Association’s new executive director is a former opera singer, Wall Street employee, worked in Belize and more. New Old Town Lansing director is artist, former opera singer ...