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,
Greg Lansing Greg Lansing Greg Lansing (born ) is an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball coach at Indiana State University. He was named to the position on June 15, 2010. He also spent eight seasons as an assistant coach, including the last three as associate head coach with the program. He is #2 on the 'Wins' chart for Indiana State coaches, he trails the leader, Duane Klueh by 44 wins. Lansing burst onto the national scene as a rookie head coach with the Sycamore basketball program in 2010-11 as he became just the second-ever Indiana State head coach