Lansing

Lansing, the capital of Michigan, on both sides of the Grand River, 85 miles WNW. of Detroit, at the meeting-point of four railways. It contains the state capitol, library, reform school, and agricultural college, a school for the blind, and several manufactures. Lansing was settled and made the state capital in 1847, and incorporated as a city in 1859. Pop. (1870) 5241; (1890) 13,102.