Excerpt from Lansing, the Capital of Michigan: Its Advantages, Natural and Acquired, as a Center of Trade and Manufactures, Showing How It Is to Become the Commercial and Financial, as Well as the Political Capital of a Great State
The City of Lansing and Capital of Michigan is situated on Grand River, and is a part of the township of Lansing, the northwest corner town of Ingham County, in town 4 north, of range 2 west. It is 84 miles from the City of Detroit, by the Detroit, Lansing & Lake Michigan Railroad; 38 miles north of Jackson, by the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Railroad, and 60 miles south of Saginaw by the same road. It is about 50 miles south of the center of the Lower Peninsula. Its exact location is 42 degrees 56 minutes and 28 seconds north latitude, and 84 degrees 32 minutes and 40 seconds west longitude from Greenwich.
The city, as first platted, was two miles in length north and south, by one mile east and west.
It was laid out upon a liberal scale, the main avenues being seven, and the other streets five rods in width. Eleven acres were reserved for grounds upon which to build a Capitol. Seven and a half squares were reserved for public purposes, in addition to Capitol square. Of these, blocks 78, 79, and 81 are two blocks north of Capitol square; 139 and 140 are two blocks south; and between these two last named blocks, four and a half acres, comprising block 125 and half of 124, were reserved for a grove. Block 115, upon which the old State House now stands, was also reserved.
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