Were going to see the bottom of the palm today. Exactly. Where are you taking us. Think well hit the downtown area of the State Capitol and then old town lansing, which is very popular, and then out east to Michigan State university. Perfect. Should we get going . You bet. On the left youll see tall lawyer called the bo itemperature but was originally the olds tower. Ransom eli olds came to lansing with his family and founded oldmobile and youll find his name and the car industry in a lot of things you talk but in lansing. A lot of people associate the car industry with detroit bit made its way here as well. It actually began here. Olds was kind of a friend of henry ford but he actually was the first built the First Assembly line, and henry ford perfected it. So olds had a lot of great inventions. He sold the Oldsmobile Company and then founds a Company Called reo car company and they were both in lansing. Does lansing have an always to presence. We do. We are home of gm, general motor
Michigan to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the book seen to our viewers scene to our viewers. You can see more on cspan. Org citiestour. A pioneer. S it wasnt until the state legislature designated this area camee new capital that he with these other folks and helped build the capital. More states had a slightly sensible approach. We did not do that here. There was no transportation. Was the interesting and unique story of lansings beginning. Established the 1836, a year before it became a state. They designated detroit as the capital, but they were fearful detroit could easily be attacked by lake erie, and they should move the capital inward, but they could not decide where. They put in the constitution that the first session of the legislature of 1848 should be held in the new capital, which should be inland. So, they had 10 years to decide. They waited until they had 10 months left. Statelittle town
With support from our Comcast Cable partners this weekend we travel to lansing michigan. Coming up we will talk with authors base year as we first learn how the city was chosen as the state capital and then about 15 minutes the story of arby olds and the auto Company Founded in lansing and later we take a driving tour of the citys downtown. We begin our special feature as we hear about james turner and the founding of lansing. James turner was a pioneer. It wasnt until the state legislature designated this area that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. He had a slightly more sensible approach, but we didnt do that. Wehad nothing here, there was no transportation. They had so much to build a castle city and that was the very interested and exciting and unique story oflansings beginning. The legislature established the state in about 1836, about a year before it became a state. They designated detroit as the capital but they were fearful that detroit could be easi
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