Michigan State Capitol Lansing following a decision made March 17, 1847, to move the capital from Detroit to Lansing. The Detroit building then became a public school (the Union School, at one time the city's only high school) and library until it burned in 1893. The 1835 Michigan Constitution provided that: Prior to 1847, Detroit fought to maintain the Capitol within its jurisdiction, but communities in the growing western part of the state had many reasons for wanting a move inland, including the need to increase defensibility by moving the state government away from the Canada–US border. Detroit had been occupied during the
Lansing Station Lansing Station Lansing Station is a road located in Lansing, New York, United States. It is on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York and is often used to refer to a part of the town located in the Lansing School District near the North Lansing Fire Station. There is mixed residential housing along Lansing Station. However, many wealthy people live in the area that also runs into Algerine Road, including John Alexander the founder of CBORD, which sold in 2008 to Roper Technologies in a deal valued at $367 million. Lansing