![]() ![]() In 1857 the Michigan Legislature changed the name of the village officially to Okemos to honor the old chief. The village area was one of his primary camping areas and he traveled frequently between the village and another campsite near present-day Portland, Michigan. Kilbourne was the first postmaster.Ī local Native American, Chief John Okemos, was well known throughout the area. Ī post-office called Sanford was established in the spring of 1840. It was Bray who platted out the southeast corner of his land and sold the lots to newcomers traveling into the mid-state wilderness. They were soon followed by Joseph Kilbourne, who took out land for his brother-in-law, Freeman Bray. The first settlers near the current Village of Okemos (to the south of the former Pine Lake) were Sanford Marsh and his wife who built their cabin in 1839. Currently, the Village of Haslett is located at the south side of Lake Lansing. An amusement park was introduced and enjoyed immense popularity into the mid-20th century. During the late 19th century, the lake became known as a local vacation area served by an "interurban trolley" which ran from the City of Lansing to the resort on the south side of the lake. The lake was later the site of a Spiritualist Meeting Camp led by John Haslett. The earliest settlers located at Pine Lake (now Lake Lansing) and made use of the numerous stands of pines to build their cabin. In November 1836 Obed Marshall purchased 180 acres (73 ha) of land near present-day Haslett. Meridian Township was first settled by pioneers in 1836. Bordering East Lansing to the west, Meridian Charter Township is the third-largest municipality within the Lansing–East Lansing metropolitan area. The township contains the unincorporated communities of Haslett and Okemos. The township is named after the Michigan meridian, which comprises the eastern border of the township. As of the 2020 census, the township had a population of 43,916. Meridian Charter Township is a charter township of Ingham County in the U.S. "We've had a lot of people walking in the door today.”īryce Airgood and Mark Johnson contributed to this report.Ĭontact Ken Palmer at. "So we'll be figuring out how best to allocate those funds, and I'm sure it's probably over $10,000 by now," he said. Nearly $6,200 was donated to Meridian Cares on Thursday alone, with all of that money earmarked for Knob Hill. A Christmas party for children and their families also is in the works, he said. Walsh said duffel bags were provided to each of the displaced families at the hotel so they could fill them with donated goods. "We also arranged for some feminine sanitary products and got those all delivered right away into the Holiday Inn." “We also were able to get with Delta Dental and get a bunch of personal hygiene supplies," Walsh said. The owner of the local Chick-fil-A outlet provided 45 complete dinners to emergency responders at the scene, and township board members delivered them to firefighters about 7 p.m., he said. Walsh said the tragedy has drawn "a total outpouring of support” from an "amazing community." "There could have been several, several fatalities yesterday.” "That's just amazing is what it is," he said. Walsh said police and firefighters rescued people stranded on the third-floor balcony "with nowhere to go, with flames shooting up." ![]() ![]() But we can lay a new path going forward, and that's what we're concentrating on right now. "What the focus right now is, what can we do? We can't change what happened yesterday. “I mean, it was just so heartbreaking to be on the scene last night, and it rips your heart away to see these people that are just trying to live and get by and work and take care of their kids and this happened," Walsh said Thursday morning. Firefighters from Meridian Township, East Lansing, Lansing, Mason and NIESA responded on Wednesday. Meridian Township Manager Frank Walsh said 45 emergency responders were on the scene Wednesday, including firefighters, police officers and other personnel. Watch Video: Video: Firefighters battle fire at Meridian Township apartment complex. ![]()
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