Lansing (Michigan)

The town of Lansing is the capital of the State Michigan, with the the United States of America, located on the Large one To rivet, in the North-West of Strait. Its population was of 119.128 inhabitants in 2000, with 455.836 inhabitants in the agglomeration on this same date.

History

The area was inhabited by the Chippewa S when, in the years 1840, of the families of immigrants arrived of the State of New York. They asserted grounds which they had bought but those proved to exist only on paper. Many colonists decided to remain in spite of their disillusion. They gave to the city which they founded the name of a lawyer and American political director, John Lansing.

The area was still mainly wild when Lansing was chosen, in 1847, like capital of the State, to replace Detroit. In the middle of the years 1880, Ransom E. Olds and Frank G. Clark manufactured there their first motor vehicle, which was at the origin of a vast industrial rise in all the area.

The day before the Second world war, the State of Michigan was essential like the heart of American auto industry. The great recession of 1979-1982 was particularly disastrous for the regional automotive engineering, which lost a third of its employment. Since, the great establishments built with Lansing before or during the years 1940 close their doors the ones after the others, leaving immense spaces in waste land.

Economy

Lansing is an old production center industrial, specialized in auto industry since the end of the 19th century. It is indeed in Lansing that in 1899 the first automobile factory was born (Ransom Olds). The city also has metallurgical and chemical industries.

Culture

Religion

  • Diocese of Lansing

  • Cathedral Sainte-Marie de Lansing

Monuments

Events

Births

Twinnings

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Simple: Lansing, Michigan

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