Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

LANSING TOWNSHIP AND CITY, WITH HISTORY

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with brick and converted the building into an apartment house.
The name was again changed to Franklin Terraces and this name
still clings. The original frame work of the building, however, is
still intact and much of the lumber formerly cut from virgin forests about Flushing is still intact and in good state of repair.
The hotel in an earlier day became popular as a stopping place
for stages, which plied between Lansing and Detroit and Lansing
and northern points. Horses were changed at the old hotel
which had a barn of huge proportions in the rear. With the coming of the railroads the stage business became a dead issue. From
that period the hotel's patronage began to decline.-Lansing State
Journal, 1921.
LANSING'S FIRST CHURCH BUILDING WAS OLD
STABLE, PIONEER DECLARES.
Initial Denomination Established Here Was Methodist Dr. F. N.
Turner Says.
How Lansing's first church was organized in 1846 by four devout women is told by Dr. F. N. Turner in a paper he has recently
prepared giving the facts in relation to this first religious movement in the community. In compiling the data he spent much
time in consulting old records to refresh his memory.
The paper follows:
"The first church organization in our city was Methodist. In
1846 a small band of Methodists met and formed a society with
four members, Joab Page, Abigail Page, Orcella Pease, and Eliza
Lester.
"Lansing was a village and three women and one man, realizing
the need of religious interest to their families and the difficulties
of getting it from the outside world through lack of roads and
other means of communication, resolved to help each other, hence
the formation of this first church society.
"After the Capital was located, and immigration to the north
end commenced this society increased in numbers. Many of
the new members were Presbyterians, so when the trustees
and minister decided upon a site for church and church build