East Lansing, Michigan travel between Detroit and Lansing, which cut right through what is now East Lansing. The toll road was finished in 1853, and included seven tollhouses between Lansing and Howell. Michigan State University was founded in 1855 and established in what is now East Lansing in 1857. For the first four decades, the students and faculty lived almost entirely on the college campus. A few commuted from Lansing, and that number increased when a streetcar line was built in the 1890s, but there were few places to live in the then-rural area surrounding the campus. That started to change in 1887,
Lansing High School York State High School Golf Championship. In 2012 Connor Lapresi won the New York State High School Wrestling Championship (132 lb. DII). In 2012 the Boy's Varsity Baseball Team won the New York State High School Baseball Championship. The Bobcats went undefeated with a 26-0 record. In 2017 and 2018 the Boy's Varsity Soccer Team won the New York State High School Soccer Championship. Lansing High School Lansing High School is the only public high school in Lansing, New York, United States. The school is located on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate