Editing Lansing, Michigan (section)

===Exploration by Europeans===
The first recorded person of European descent to travel through the area that is now Lansing was British [[fur trader]] Hugh Heward and his [[French-Canadian]] team on April 24, 1790, while canoeing the [[Grand River (Michigan)|Grand River]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Woodruff |first1=Jim |date=September 1, 2015 |title=MGROW Takes On the Hugh Heward Challenge |url=http://mgrow.org/mgrow-hugh-heward-challenge/ |publisher=Middle Grand River Organization of Watersheds |access-date=February 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820105734/http://mgrow.org/mgrow-hugh-heward-challenge/ |archive-date=August 20, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/archives/011226/health/index.html |title=John Hesse is our river guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728032003/http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/archives/011226/health/index.html |archive-date=July 28, 2011 |first=Brian |last=McKenna |location=Lansing |work=City Pulse |date=December 19, 2001}}</ref> The land that was to become Lansing was surveyed as "Township 4 North Range 2 West" in February 1827 in what was then dense forest. It was the last of the county's townships to be surveyed, and the land was not offered for sale until October 1830.<ref>{{cite book |first=Justin L. |last=Kestenbaum |year=1981 |title=Out of a Wilderness: An Illustrated History of Greater Lansing |location=Woodland Hills, California |publisher=Windsor Publications |pages=10–11}}</ref> There would be no roads to this area for decades to come.

[[File:Grand River overlooking Lansing River Trail Bridge.jpg|thumb|Grand River overlooking Lansing River Trail Bridge]]