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This was the 400 block of Shawnee,
looking west from Fourth Street, about 1870.
At the corner of Fifth and Shawnee was the market house.
Rooms for municipal offices were on the second floor.
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In 1878,
James William Lansing was part owner of 90 acres of land, which
was platted into town lots. He and co-owner, John C. Schmidt named
the area 'Lansing.' Eventually, both 'Lansing' on the west side
of the road, and 'Town of Progress" on the east side of the road
all became known as 'Lansing.' The city of Lansing was not incorporated
until 1959. Since that time, the business as well as the residential
areas have grown considerably. It is today, as those early pioneers
knew it would be, 'a city with a future.'
In 1881, the school that was later
to become the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College was founded
on Fort Leavenworth by General William T Sherman. Some of the many
famous students and instructors at the college are George C. Marshall,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, Colin Powell and George
Patton. |
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