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Lansing (other)
Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. Lansing may also refer to: Places United States * Lansing, Florida, an unincorporated community *Lansing, Illinois, a village * Lansing, Iowa, a city in Lansing Township * Lansing, Kansas, a city *Lansing, New York, a town ** Lansing (village), New York, a village in the town * Lansing, North Carolina, a town * Lansing, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Lansing, Salem, Oregon, a neighborhood of Salem * Lansing, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Lansing Township, Allamakee County, Iowa * Lansing Township, Mower County, Minnesota * Lansing Charter Township, Michigan *Lake Lansing, Michigan *Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing, Michigan Canada *Lansing, Toronto, Ontario, a neighbourhood *former name of Willowdale, Toronto Other uses * Lansing (name) * USS ''Lansing'' (DE-388), a U.S. Navy destroyer escort named after William Henry Lansing *Altec Lansing, a line of audio products * Lansing Bagnall, British former fork ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansing, Michigan
Lansing () is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is mostly in Ingham County, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County. The 2020 census placed the city's population at 112,644, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan. The population of its metropolitan statistical area ( MSA) was 541,297 at the 2020 census, the third largest in the state after metropolitan Detroit and Grand Rapids. It was named the new state capital of Michigan in 1847, ten years after Michigan became a state. The Lansing metropolitan area, colloquially referred to as "Mid-Michigan", is an important center for educational, cultural, governmental, commercial, and industrial functions. Neighboring East Lansing is home to Michigan State University, a public research university with an enrollment of more than 50,000. The area features two medical schools, one veterinary school, two nursing schools, and two law schools. It is the site of the Mich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansing Charter Township, Michigan
Lansing Charter Township is a charter township of Ingham County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 8,143 at the 2020 census. The township consists of six non-contiguous sections bordered mostly by the cities of East Lansing and Lansing. The CDP of Edgemont Park is located in the north end of the western section of the township. History The first white settler to purchase land in the township was Jacob F. Cooley in 1837. The township was organized in 1842 in the northwest corner of Ingham County and was named after the hometown of one of the township's original settlers. The township experienced its first loss of land in 1859 when the unincorporated settlement of Lansing officially incorporated as a city out of seven square miles near the center of the township. On April 1, 1963, township voters voted to become a charter township, which provides for streamlined administration, expanded taxing authority, and added protection from annexation. Geography Acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansing Oldsmobile
The Lansing Oldsmobiles, Lansing Durants and Lansing Durant Stars were the names of an American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ... team that played four seasons; from 1919 to 1920 and then from 1922 to 1923. They folded after 1920 but returned in 1922 as the Durants/Durant Stars. They folded for the last time after 1923. Lansing Oldsmobile/Oldsmobiles They were founded in 1919 as the Lansing Oldsmobile/Oldsmobiles. In 1919 they had a 6–2 record. They won their first three games against the " Battle Creek A.C.", Detroit Mohawks, and Toledo Navy. Their record in 1920 was 6-1-3. They folded after 1920. Lansing Durants/Durant Stars They came back in 1922 as the "Lansing Durants/Durant Stars". In their first season back they had a undefeated record, finishin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansing Bagnall
Lansing Bagnall, later known as Lansing Linde, was a British forklift truck manufacturer based in Kingsclere Road, Basingstoke, England. The company was known for the invention of the reach truck. Later, it was merged into Linde Material Handling which is now part of KION Group. History The business was started as a company office in 1920 when W G Bagnall arrived in London as a representative of Lansing company of Michigan. In 1930, the parent company, Lansing, ceased manufacturing operations, so Bagnall took the charge and incorporated the company in 1937 as Lansing Bagnall and Company Limited in Isleworth,London. The company was bought out of bankruptcy in 1943 by Emmanuel Kaye and John R Sharp and renamed after themselves as J E Shay Ltd. At that time, the company made petrol and electric, industrial and station platform tractors. Later, the company went on to produce forklift trucks. Operating as Lansing Bagnall and Shay's in 1946. The company's first factory in Basin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altec Lansing
Altec Lansing, Inc. is a U.S. audio electronics company founded in 1927. Their primary products are loudspeakers and associated audio electronics for professional, home, automotive and multimedia applications. Engineers at Western Electric, who later formed Altec Services Company, developed the technology for motion picture sound that was introduced in 1927, with the release of ''The Jazz Singer''. Originally, Altec Services Company serviced the theater sound systems the company founders had helped develop. In 1941 the Altec Services Company purchased the nearly bankrupt Lansing Manufacturing Company and melded the two names, forming the Altec Lansing Corporation, and with the manufacturing capabilities of the former Lansing Manufacturing Company, they quickly expanded into manufacturing horn loudspeakers. In 1958 the Altec Lansing Corporation was purchased by James Ling who made it part of LTV Ling Altec. LTV spun off Altec which it loaded down with debt first. By 1974, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Lansing (DE-388)
USS ''Lansing'' (DE-388), an ''Edsall''-class destroyer escort, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Aviation Machinist Mate First Class William Henry Lansing. Namesake William Henry Lansing was born on 7 March 1914 in Amsterdam, New York. He enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve on 14 February 1933. He joined the regular United States Navy on 8 May 1934 and was assigned to in August. In December 1941, Aviation Machinist Mate First Class Lansing joined Patrol Squadron 43, serving at San Diego, California and Alameda, California. Following the entry of the United States into World War II, his squadron was dispatched to the Aleutian Islands for the aviation buildup in the North Pacific. On 11 June 1942 as plane captain, he participated in a divebombing and strafing attack on Japanese shipping in Kiska Harbor. While manning his exposed and unprotected station at the engine controls, he was killed by enemy fire. Construction and commissionin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansing (name)
Lansing is a Dutch patronymic surname from the personal name ''Lans'' (Germanic Lanzo). The "-ing" or "-ink" suffix originally was patronymic, but later also became indicative of a place. ''Lansing'' is now a rare name in the Netherlands (''Lansink'' is the more common form), an Lansink at the Database of Surnames in the Netherlands but there are many descendants in the United States of Gerrit Gerritse Lansing (ca.1615–bef.1654), a baker in Hasselt, Overijssel, whose widow and children migra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willowdale, Toronto
Willowdale is a neighbourhood in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located in the district of North York. It developed from three postal villages: Newtonbrook, Willowdale and Lansing. Willowdale began as a postal village (originally Willow Dale) which covered the area from Finch Avenue at the north to Elmwood Ave at the south and Bathurst Street at the west to Bayview Avenue at the east. The village of Lansing was from Elmwood Ave. at the north to approx. Hwy. 401 at the south and Bathurst St. at the west to Bayview Ave. at the east. (East of Bayview Ave. was the village of Oriole.) The north–south center line of both Lansing and Willowdale was Yonge Street. The postal village of Lansing remained in existence until the post office at Lansing corner (northwest corner of Yonge St. and Sheppard Ave.) was closed. When a new post office was built in Willowdale, the postal addresses of Lansing and Willowdale were combined as the new postal village of Willowdale, within the Towns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansing, Toronto
Lansing is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It originated as a minor settlement of a store, other services and a post office at the corner of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue and later became absorbed into the former suburb of North York. A larger area was designated as the postal village of Lansing. The City of Toronto labels it as Lansing-Westgate for neighbourhood planning purposes with the boundaries Yonge Street to the east, Highway 401 to the south, Bathurst Street to the west and Burnett Avenue to the north. History The postal village of Lansing was from Elmwood Avenue in the north to approximately the current location of Highway 401 in the south and Bathurst Street in the west to Bayview Avenue in the east with the actual post office located at the northwest corner of Yonge Street and Sheppard Avenue where a grocery store and other services were located. The postal village name was provided by Joseph Shepard's daughter Saida. The postal village of Lansing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Lansing
The Diocese of Lansing ( la, Diœcesis Lansingensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church located in the south-central portion of Michigan around Lansing. It encompasses an area of including the counties of Clinton, Eaton, Genesee, Hillsdale, Ingham, Jackson, Lenawee, Livingston, Shiawassee and Washtenaw. The Diocese of Lansing is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of metropolitan Archdiocese of Detroit. History Pope Pius XI created the Diocese of Lansing May 22, 1937 by taking territory from the Archdiocese of Detroit. In July 1971, Pope Paul VI separated territory from the Lansing Diocese and territory from the Diocese of Grand Rapids to form the new Diocese of Kalamazoo. On August 13, 2017 Bishop Boyea consecrated the diocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In January 2021, the diocese instituted a policy for schools, parishes, and charities to affirm the biological sex of all persons. This includes the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Lansing
Lake Lansing is a lake in Haslett, Michigan just a few miles northeast of the state's capital city of Lansing. Overview Lake Lansing was originally known as Pine Lake, and was a highly popular recreation site in the early 1900s. The name was changed to Lake Lansing in 1930. The lake soon began to decline in recreational popularity, and was neglected for many decades until it was dredged in 1978, restoring the health of the lake. Around 280 residential homes surround the lake. Two sailing clubs also have property on the lake. In addition there are two public parks. A special assessment district created by the township enables education, ongoing testing, evaluation and management of the lake to control weeds, encourage phosphorus free fertilization, round up geese and other activities to keep the lake healthy and safe for recreational use. The Lake Lansing Property Owners Association maintains a communication system for property owners, works for safety on the lake, sponsors n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lansing Township, Mower County, Minnesota
Lansing Township is a township in Mower County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,292 at the 2000 census. The largest city contained partially within the township is Austin with 23,314 people. The southern part of Austin is in Austin Township. Lansing Township also contains the town of Mapleview (population 189) and the unincorporated areas of Ramsey, Corning, and Lansing. History Lansing Township was organized in 1858, and named after Lansing, Michigan and as a tribute to Alanson B. Vaughan. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (0.28%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,292 people, 488 households, and 374 families residing in the township. The population density was . There were 514 housing units at an average density of 15.9/sq mi (6.2/km). The racial makeup of the township was 97.29% White, 0.70% African American, 0.15% Native American, 0.31% Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
