Lansing
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- Names
Lansing
Michigan
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Grand river where it joins the Red Cedar river; site was wilderness in 1847 when state capital was moved here; grew with arrival of railroad & development of motor industry in 1880s; now produces automobiles.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994);
- Born
Kay French (American, born 1953)
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