Editing Lansing, Kansas (section)

==History==
{{See also|History of Kansas}}

Lansing is named for James Lansing, a pioneer settler.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ODXKhgH3e6AC&pg=PA52 | title=Exploring Kansas Highways | author=Heim, Michael | year=2007 | pages=52| isbn=9780974435886 }}</ref>  Formerly William Lansing Taylor, James changed his name upon his enlistment in 1862 as a hospital steward in the [[7th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry|7th Kansas Cavalry]].  Following the [[American Civil War|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 {{convert|90|acre|m2}} 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.<ref name="LansingHistory">{{Cite web| url=http://www.lansingks.org/index.asp?NID=157| title=Lansing History| access-date=2006-07-16| publisher=City of Lansing}}</ref>

The Kansas State Penitentiary, later renamed the [[Lansing Correctional Facility]] in 1990, was authorized by the [[Kansas Constitution]] in 1859; it is the state's largest and oldest facility for detention and rehabilitation of male adult felons.<ref name="LansingHistory"/>  With the opening of the coal mine at the prison the town became an important shipping point for this product.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia| editor=Frank W. Blackmar| title=Atchison| url=http://www.skyways.org/genweb/archives/1912/l/lansing.html| encyclopedia=Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc ...| volume=II|  publisher=Standard Pub Co| location=Chicago| year=1912| pages=104}}</ref>

Lansing was ranked 88 in the top 100 of Money Magazine's 2007 list of best places to live.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0707/gallery.BPTL_top_100.moneymag/88.html| title=Best Places to Live: Top 100| access-date=2008-04-15| magazine=Money Magazine | first1=Kate | last1=Ashford | first2=Andrea | last2=Bartz | first3=Jeff | last3=Cox | first4=Asa | last4=Fitch | first5=Stephen | last5=Gandel | first6=Josh | last6=Hyatt | first7=Rob | last7=Kelley | first8=Kathleen | last8=Knight | first9=Joe | last9=Light| display-authors = 8}}</ref>