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WELCOME TO COUNTIES Jackson/Ingham MICHIGAN BRANCH OUT BY CALLING LANSING, MI’S PREMIER TREE CARE EXPERTS Tree Trimming & Removal 4-5 Jackson & Ingham Counties At A Glance Lot Clearing | Stump Grinding A Closer Look: Snow Removal & Salting 6-7 Welcome to Jackson 8-9 Welcome to Lansing 10 -11 Places of Jackson County 12-13 Places of Ingham County 16-17 Things To Do 18 Discover The Sights 20-21 Acitivities and Events 22 Directory Design, Layout, & Published by Heartland Marketing Inc. 1310 El Camino Drive Pekin, IL 61554 Phone: 309.349.3282 Fax: 309.349.3484 517-231-8180 www.heartlandmarketinginc.com LOUSCUTTINGEDGE.COM 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide | 3 INGHAM COUNTY is a county located in the state of JACKSON Michigan. The county seat is Mason. Lansing, the state capital of Michigan, is located within the county, and is the only state capital located in a county that is not also its seat of government. The county is home to Michigan & INGHAM State University, Lansing Community College, and the COUNTIES Class A minor league baseball team Lansing Lugnuts. Ingham County is included in the Lansing-East Lansing, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is considered to be a JACKSON COUNTY is a county located part of Mid Michigan. Jackson County in the state of Michigan. The county seat 158,640 is Jackson. The county was set off in Ingham County was established by an act of the CITY POPULATION 1829 and organized in 1832. It is named Jackson 33,534 Michigan Territorial Legislature on October 29, 1829, from for U.S. President Andrew Jackson and Michigan Center 4,701 portions of Shiawassee County, Washtenaw County and Vandercook Lake 4,638 considered to be one of Michigan’s unorganized territory. It was attached for administrative Spring Arbor 2,812 “Cabinet counties”, named for members purposes to Washtenaw County until 1838 when county Brooklyn 1,236 of Jackson’s Cabinet. Grass Lake 1,236 government was established for Ingham. Napoleon 1,193 Concord 1,056 Jackson County comprises the Jackson, The county was named for Samuel D. Ingham, the Vineyard Lake CDP 992 MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. Springport 775 U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Parma 767 Jackson, making Ingham one of Michigan’s so-called The Jackson County Courthouse was Cement City 491 Cabinet counties. Hanover 434 designed by Claire Allen, a prominent southern Michigan architect. Jackson Ingham County County is also home to the Michigan 292,427 Whitetail Hall of Fame. L ansing 117,289 East Lansing 50,938 Spend the weekend in Jackson, Michigan Holt 25,238 Okemos 23,418 and you’ll feel like it was made just for Haslett 20,014 you. We are buzzing with music, art, Mason 8,531 Williamston 4,047 breweries, wineries, food, festivals, nature Leslie 1,836 and history, combined. Stockbridge 1,360 Webberville 1,329 Dansville 584 For more information please visit www.cityofjackson.org and www.ingham.org 4 | 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide | 5 Jackson County Jackson UNCOVER JACKSON’S PAST Whether you know it or not, you’ve Now named Under the Oaks City County Park, also known as use, it was active and inhabited until addition to six galleries, this museum been staring at Jackson history Park, this historic hotspot has Cascades Park. 2007. For a taste of what modern, feature a 150-year-old log cabin, as long as you’ve had American been visited by politicians for over everyday prison life is like (without schoolhouse, doctor’s office, print a sentence), it doesn’t get more shop, country store, wood shop and dollars in your wallet. Jackson was a century. President Taft visited in HISTORY YEAR ROUND authentic than visiting Cell Block 7: farmhouse. founded in 1829, dedicating its 1910 to designate the site, President The first Civil War volunteer regiment Michigan’s Prison Museum. name to the soon-to-be star of the Eisenhower visited in 1952, and in Michigan came from right here in Jackson, and several spots around SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE $20 bill, President Andrew Jackson. President Nixon liked it so much, town reflect invaluable reminders of TAKE A STEP BACK IN TIME Jackson’s museums are as diverse Originally named “Jacksonopolis,” he stopped by twice — once the history that followed. It’s no secret that Jackson history as its history, from Cell Block then “Jacksonburgh,” then finally as Eisenhower’s vice president has played a major role in the 7 Michigan’s Prison Museum good old “Jackson,” our city wasted and again during his presidential JACKSON HISTORIC PRISON TOURS development of the region and the within an active compound to the no time leaving an impression on campaign. Most recently, GOP Take The Original Jackson Historic state. From the first state prison Whitetail Hall of Fame Museum’s both state and national history. It nominee John McCain paid a visit as Prison Tours. Walk the “Old Prison” to what was once the largest stop 50 record buck racks on display. was the birthplace of the Republican he campaigned through the Midwest. grounds within 25’ high, imposing on the Detroit-to-Chicago rail line, Gaze up at the cosmos under Hurst Party and represented a turning point Regardless of your place on the stone walls resembling an old castle. little pieces of Michigan history are Planetarium’s 30-foot dome or gaze in the events leading up to the Civil political spectrum, you’ll be in pretty The remaining huge building, once waiting to be uncovered within the down at Ye Ole Carriage Shop Auto city’s museums and historic homes. Museum’s seriously sleek display of War. Michigan even selected Jackson famous company. Michigan’s first penitentiary cellblock, 60-plus classic cars. Musicians and to house its first state prison in 1839, is now converted into the Armory Arts Step inside one of Jackson’s music lovers will appreciate Conklin Explore the pivotal role that Jackson Village. This is the only old prison in just two years after joining the Union. preserved properties and experience Reed Organ & History Museum, played in the anti-slavery movement the world re-purposed as a residence Museums, monuments and historic a time before cars, technology, where over 100 fully restored of the 1850s, leading up to four years with a focus on the arts - a unique buildings pepper the city, harboring and almost every convenience we antique organs are on display — of American civil war. From striking blend with prison past. Live guides stories and artifacts that are waiting now take for granted. Costumed some dating back over 150 years. monuments and locations to widely share captivating tales of crime, to be discovered. guides lead the way on a tour of Jackson’s newest additions in attended events that continue to corruption, and reform. Three tours the Waterloo Farm Museum and Grass Lake are the Michigan Military honor an undeniable impact, the are offered in accordance with group its 10-room farmhouse, while the Heritage Museum which recounts On July 6, 1854, over 1,000 people stories of the Civil War hold a special size and your available time. Dewey School Museum close by the war stories of the average Joe gathered in a Jackson hall in protest significance within Jackson’s heart. of a recent slavery expansion CELL BLOCK 7 paints a picture of a mid-1800s and Jane from Michigan. Then, stop school day. The Mann House and over to the Lost Railway Museum, act. The hall’s spatial limits and In honor of the area’s widespread Visit Cell Block 7: Michigan’s Coe House Museum both provide where they document the history of poor ventilation weren’t exactly history, the Jackson Civil War Muster Prison Museum. Cell Block 7 was a snapshot of the late 1800s within Jackson’s trains and railways, which accommodating in the middle of a was started in 1984. It still runs every the largest block within the State striking Victorian exteriors. Stroll once featured one of the busiest summer, featuring more than 1,500 Prison of Southern Michigan or “New Michigan summer. So they moved the through the Ella Sharp Museum and stops in the state! reenactors and 30,000 spectators. Prison” with 516 cells and served meeting to a park, where a group of see what several aspects of daily life Visit a re-creation of the original for many years as the Reception party candidates was designated and were like during the Civil War era. In village of Jacksonburgh, watch an and Guidance center for the Lower would see sweeping victories later Peninsula. Today, Cell Block 7 is a that year. Thus, the first Republican artillery “night fire,” and enjoy live period music at this annual summer one-of-a-kind prison museum inside convention was held — and the tradition in Sparks Foundation an operating penitentiary. Although Republican Party was born. this wing of the prison is no longer in For more information please visit www.experiencejackson.com 6 | 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide 2018 Jackson/Ingham Counties, MI Community Guide | 7 Ingham County Lansing LANSING’S HISTORY LANSING TODAY The area that is now Lansing was The sleepy settlement of fewer than to constant political wrangling, the MSU – 5,400 of which are Chinese. 1.45 inches of precipitation; with 3.60 been preparing servant-leaders since originally surveyed in 1825 in what 20 people would remain dormant until Michigan House of Representatives Our central location in the state of inches, June is the wettest month.