Welcome to Lansing Kansas “A City with a future”!
Did you know that Lansing, Kansas was ranked in the top 100 of Money Magazine’s “Top Places to Live”?. The People and Government of Lansing have worked hard to make this Beautiful City an attractive place for new residents and prospecting businesses. This hard work has paid dividends as Lansing is a rapidly growing community.
Lansing is named for James William Lansing, a business man born in New York Formerly William Lansing Taylor, James changed his name upon his enlistment in 1862 as a hospital steward in the 7th Regiment of the Kansas Volunteer Calvary Following the Civil War, he earned a position at the new state penitentiary in Kansas as a hospital steward. He later resigned and opened a general mercantile store, which held the Post Office and an apothecary business, in the area called “Town of Progress”. “Doc Lansing”, as he became known, and his friend John C. Schmidt became co-owners of ninety acres of land that was platted into town lots in 1878; they named the area “Town of Lansing”. Lansing did not become an incorporated city until 1959
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