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- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- Curator Elizabeth Homer talks about the early life of Lansing pioneers Marion and James Turner, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- A history of the railroad line which ran through Ingham, Clinton, Gratiot, and Isabella counties, by Ford Stevens Ceasar.
- Date Created:
- 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Digitized Books
- Notes:
- Portrait of John Ball, circa 1875. John Ball (1794-1884) was an early pioneer and land speculator who came to Grand Rapids in 1836. He was also a teacher, lawyer, and a politician. He also left forty acres of land on the west side to the City of Grand Rapids which became John Ball Park and home of John Ball Zoo.
- Date Created:
- 1875-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Description:
- October 2004: Nathalie Winans shares the story of Lansing pioneer family the Wards, focusing on her great-great uncle Ulysses D. Ward, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Date Created:
- 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- On front of photograph: "Convention of State Pioneers, Lansing, Mich., Feb. 5, 1879. Mead & Jennings, Artists." Several men and women are gathered on the steps of the state capitol building. The woman in the center is labeled "Mrs. Tenney" - Harriet Tenney was the first state librarian in Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- May or June 1998: Linda Peckham talks about the very earliest days in the history of Lansing when white settlers came, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center. Note: there are some audio problems in the original video recording.
- Date Created:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- Guest speaker Patricia Heyden shares a biography of Amanda Fleming Barnes, a leader among women in early Lansing, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
- Description:
- Photo of a log cabin on a horse drawn cart during the pioneer day celebration in Lansing sometime between 1913 and 1915.
- Date Created:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Edmonds Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Guest speaker Patricia Heyden shares a biography of economist, suffragist, and author Sarah Vander Vort Emery, with a focus on 19th century currency and banking scandals, at the Turner-Dodge House and Heritage Center.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Meet Your City Video Series
