A Brief History of East Lansing

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Essays on the people, buildings, and events in the conjoined histories of East Lansing and Michigan State University, with a particular interest in the Michigan Agricultural College era (1855–1925), and a timeline of significant events.

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East Lansing’s First Post Office

It has been a men’s clothier. A discount vitamin shop. Several restaurants. For nearly twenty-five years, the final home of a beloved college hangout. But first, 211 East Grand River Avenue was East Lansing’s original post office building, when the service moved off-campus in 1923. Read More. →

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  • Mary E. Champe (1860–1953)


  • East Lansing’s First Post Office


  • Brooks’ Addition to College Delta (1899)


  • Builders Hardware, 121 N. Harrison (c. 1880)


  • Sanford Farness House, 730 Grove St. (1964)


  • Professor Samuel Johnson and the “Johnson Affair”


  • Susanna Anderson (M.A.C. ’91)


  • Arthur A. Crozier — M.A.C.’s forgotten forester


  • E. J. Rugg House, 319 Grove St. (1904)

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A Brief History of East Lansing

A history of Michigan State University and the college town it engendered.

A Brief History of East Lansing by Kevin S. Forsyth is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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